Word: oneself
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...Administration's reluctance to appear the loser in Viet Nam, he mentioned France's past agonies of pride over Southeast Asia and Algeria. The end of the war in Viet Nam for the U.S., he said, "will be the most precious of victories-a victory won over oneself...
...third date I knew, as we put it in the freshman year, I would get to home base. I primed her with talk, not with talk of love or the unmatchable experience of sex; but about the honesty of sex and the important need to fulfill oneself. I tried to be honest and she accepted what I said. But she had a moment of hesitation and I soothed her fears by talking about our next date, about our future together. I wanted to be honest with her, but I also wanted her. In the morning when I woke...
Students "force our attention upon them by their bizarre and at times violent behavior," he said. "Growing beards and long hair... symbolizes contempt for what is felt to be the hypocrisy of making oneself unnaturally pretty by means of shaving and haircuts- these, of course, being only small surface manifestations of a deep-seated contempt for the hypocrisy they believe is present in the business and political world of the well-groomed adult," he said...
...buildings begin to blow up all around, people may well ask for a new inquest into the permanent. People might abandon the idea of suffering through life to build a permanent monument. They might adopt the idea of enjoying and participating in the humility towards something else but oneself. This might be possible only after a socialist revolution where self could be rejected for community. Exploding buildings may help the transition...
...debate to some degree how far to go to actually spell it out. You could say that same copy without the word "vaginal" for instance, but we felt it was time. This era today is one of being able to express oneself and we felt the women would much more...