Word: selfesteem
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...Seventh Avenue-part commodity market, part cloud-cuckoo land-is one of few remaining arenas where the bright, the brave-and the lucky-can win fame and fortune. Deservedly so, because of all businessmen and women in the U.S., few return so much to the consumer in pleasure and selfesteem. The point was made last week at a much ballyhooed Salute to U.S. Fashion in Washington's Kennedy Center. Few of the honored designers were on hand to acknowledge the encomiums, however. Calvin and Oscar and Mary and Adolfo and Halston were all on the road. The real tribute...
...artist-in-residence at the University of Santa Clara, they have been able to take advantage of the graceful, flowing action of classical ballet to regain fuller use of arms whose movements had been limited by the scarring produced by their operations. In the process, they also regain their selfesteem...
Jimmy Connors' skill at tennis is normally exceeded only by his preening selfesteem. In the preliminary rounds of the men's singles at Wimbledon, Defending Champion Connors, 22, rated No. 1 in the world, had not dropped a set, prompting him to predict smugly that last week's final would be "just another day at the office." Like Connors, the odds makers figured the match would merely be a mildly interesting footnote to tennis history, and that only because his opponent, Arthur Ashe, 31, was the first black to reach the men's finals in Wimbledon...
Ultraconservative in politics and social values, he looked with great loathing upon his sexual desires. To bolster his selfesteem, he says, he clung to racist views. "I kept thinking that if there was someone lower than me on the totem pole, it was not so bad. It was a defense mechanism...
...Womanschool is the invention of petite, intense Elaine First Sharpe, 38, an assistant professor of English at coeducational Jersey City State College. After eleven years at Jersey, Sharpe decided that many women lack self-confidence. "They don't like themselves," she says. What they need to boost their selfesteem, she feels, is to learn more skills. With her husband Donald, 40, an associate law professor at Fordham, she took a small ad in the New York Times last year to recruit female teachers for an informal school that would "offer women options." They had planned to hold classes...