Word: self-respect
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...charge that anti-Marketeers were misty-minded isolationists who showed "the same degree of contact with rational probability as a New Guinea cargo cult." On the other side, angry leftist Playwright John Osborne denounced the EEC as "the last desperate dream of dull, dim tradesmen without vision, imagination or self-respect, feeling for life or history...
...future of the Legislative Branch of Government because power was being increasingly concentrated in the presidency. Now, at a follow-up conference with nine Senators, ten Congressmen and 13 political scientists in Washington, TIME has found that the alarms have been quieted and that Congress has regained its self-respect. A report on the healthy new attitude and some qualifications, as expressed at the day-long meeting...
...Americans sent to stop their revolution, are beyond the reach of debtors and creditors alike. It is more a matter of earning the astonishing friendship so many Vietnamese have expressed towards an American people that let its government commit barbarities in its name, or of recovering the self-respect endangered by 15 years in which politicians appealed instead to national pride in order to justify...
...Charles Beaudet, 52, a $22,000-a-year sculptural designer for Chrysler, was furloughed just before Christmas. He supports his wife and five children on his SUB checks, but he has cut out the monthly case of wine, the symphony concerts and other civilized frills. Beaudet worries that his self-respect is going too. "It hurts," he says, describing the experience of standing in an unemployment line. "It's demoralizing." Bankruptcy declarations rose 41% last year, to 4,040, and new claims are being filed at the rate of 85 a week...
...single and then as a remarried woman has dried out her tears, and this more confident Marianne at the end of the film is convincing enough in terms of the emotion. Liv Ullman, playing Marianne, makes those little smiles tell; by the end her eyes proclaim her self-respect. But, despite what she thinks, her sensibility is little changed. Her marriage by the conventions didn't work, and her new life is new convention based on socially certified licentiousness. Formed from the same society that molded her marriage, Marianne's new style of freedom can't redefine the roles...