Word: self-respect
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...Bears may be terrible, but they are enthusiastic. Misfits all, playing-even miserably-gives them a shot at self-respect. Buttermaker considers this and, out of his beery fog, figures the kids deserve a break. His motives are not entirely altruistic, however. On a rival team, there is a gung-ho, supercilious coach (well played by Vic Morrow), and Buttermaker hates his guts...
...Lawrence. He was one of those rare and many-selved creatures whose talents for action and introspection were almost balanced, and he has become a mirror to cast back the face of each inspector. Six decades have passed since his efforts to "restore to the East some self-respect, a goal, ideals" raised an Arab army against the occupying Turks in Syria, waged glamorously mobile guerrilla war in the midst of the clumsy formal movements of World War I, changed the history of the Middle East, and were sold out by English duplicity and Islamic squabbling after...
...qualifications of a Dean are secondary to the need to find someone to stimulate the sense of purpose and mission which the Committee found lacking in both faculty and students, as well as to attract a higher claibre of faculty. It was suggested that students are seeking meaning and self-respect in their profession and that commanding presence in a Dean is preferable to missionary zeal which can cool in the real world. As the architect himself is not the patron, figures from government and business who provide opportunities for the architect may constitute the pool from which to select...
...other children. Their parents are not "child-centered"; their parents are frightened, vulnerable, grim and themselves hungry, jobless, constantly apprehensive. It is one thing to live in a world that altogether lacks good sanitation, electricity or good medical care, as did colonial Americans, but in compensation to feel the self-respect that goes with being an accepted and welcome member of a particular community. It is quite another thing to watch one's children suffer and live extremely marginal lives while other children have quite different, vastly better prospects...
...that the university is a neutral community of scholars where religion should not intrude. The statistics I've just cited as well as the statement by the former president of Dartmouth indicate that this belief in the neutrality of the university performed nonetheless the important function of preserving the self-respect of many Jewish academics...