Word: self-respect
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...among the hillside rocks, and Juan Diego took them to the bishop in his scrape. When he opened his cloak, it bore a miraculous painting of the Virgin in unmistakably Indian form, with a brown face and black hair. As Graham Greene once wrote, "The legend gave the Indian self-respect; it gave him a hold over his conquerors...
Coles's article is an obvious example of this old-wine syndrome. In his ten-page essay entitled "Work and Self-Respect," he attempts to define the term "grown-up" by the working man's or woman's standards. He arrives at the legitimate conclusion that it means "responsible, hard-working, dedicated and, not least, self-sacrificing without demonstration of self-pity." To prove his thesis Cole relies on a few random interviews conducted "out there," as he describes the field. But, at the risk of throwing doubt on his opening assertion that he is in the tradition of George...
...contest which was taken from the 1975 game films and which meant more in terms of self-respect than league standing came to a successful conclusion for the Crimson, if not for Jim Kubacki...
...Crimson, plain and simply, has to win. It has to win to keep alive the hope of even sharing the Ivy championship, and it has to win for its own self-respect...
...people face clear alternatives. While well-heeled liberals may be able to afford the cost of purist voting, they should consider the consequences of their action for the men and women who have spent the last eight years battling to protect their meager standard of living and oft-assaulted self-respect...