Word: selfesteem
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...turn them into a model show. Over the past three years, the Soviets have spent, by their official figures, $375 million in preparation for the Olympics, including the construction of 99 arenas, dormitories and other buildings. The Moscow Olympics are meant to be a monument to the Soviets' selfesteem, an extravaganza of self-congratulation that in a way betrays their profound insecurities. With so tempting a target, the Carter Administration last week was doing some purposeful sighting. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance announced a mid-February deadline for a Soviet pull-out from Afghanistan if the Games...
...father who sacrificed his work and restructured his life for his son. But again, Benton challenges the audience rather than let it leap to a pat moral position. As Joanna undergoes cross-examination at the custody trial, her virtues ever so slowly reappear. Because she has now regained her selfesteem, she seems better able than before to be a good mother to her child. The sudden pull of Streep's performance confuses loyalties even further. As Joanna gives her own account of her marriage and her efforts to recover from it, Streep painfully sheds layer after layer...
Pyongyang is a city built on a grand scale, where everything seems keyed to the country's heroic selfesteem. Broad avenues and vistas sweep toward tall monuments that honor the struggle for liberation and pay homage to President Kim Il Sung, whose name and image are everywhere. Even the stations of the subway system, which rivals Moscow's, have such exhortative names as "Rehabilitation" and "National Building" and bear huge frescoes of the President...
Marvin Zonis, a specialist on Iran at the University of Chicago, observes that in Iran and elsewhere, "Islam is being used as a vehicle for striking back at the West, in the sense of people trying to reclaim a very greatly damaged sense of selfesteem. They feel that for the past 150 years the West has totally overpowered them culturally, and in the process their own institutions and way of life have become second rate." Says John Duke Anthony, a Middle East expert in Washington: "We are witnessing a reformation. Within the Islamic world, there is a sense that changes...
...issued an edict in the name of the Queen. But Robin Hanbury-Tenison, 42, re-established order in a subtler way. After studying the troubled tribesmen, he launched a program to teach them fishing and chicken and pig farming. That helped restore their self-sufficiency and, equally important, their selfesteem...