Word: self-respect
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...story is that of a great young Shaksperian actor who regains his self-respect by acting like a beast in a household not used to people who speak Elizabethan words over a kippered herring. Satirizing himself with grace, Mr. Howard tries hard to make a crazy Ophelia fall out of love with him, so that she will fall back in love with her fiance. At the same time Mr. Howard is pressed to keep the love of "Joyce," while Eric Blore packs and repacks bags, makes bird noises, and sticks his tongue out at a little girl who knows every...
...shaves, fights, flights and two-dimensional characters, suggests an old-fashioned pulp magazine thriller brought up to date by a writer who knows Freud as well as all tricks of suspense. Its hero (and narrator) is a world-famous singer who has lost his voice as well as his self-respect, expresses himself in language more appropriate to a police reporter than a star of the Metropolitan...
Chairman of the Conference was one of the world's most respected Quakers, Dr. Rufus Matthew Jones of Haverford. Author of 40 books, longtime philosophy professor, Quaker Jones represents the broadening and liberalizing of Quaker thought which, without cooling its emotional nature, has kept the sect its self-respect. Dr. Jones, 74, is tall, pink-cheeked, white-crested, talks with the crisp accent of his native South China, Me.,, of whose Yearly Meeting he is still a member. He still lives on Haverford's cricket green, a professor emeritus, likes to watch from his window the sport which...
...cinema has a special category for what it calls "prestige pictures." Made with an eye to pleasing serious critics, these productions are intended primarily to stimulate the self-respect rather than fill the purses of their makers. Prestige pictures are such films as The Green Pastures, Winter set, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Camille and the like. Many prestige pictures lost money. Many are bores...
...loss of a year in studies is of minor importance as contrasted with the loss of self-respect...