Word: self-respect
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...subtitle might be useful for The Odessa File, something like How I Stumbled on a Nazi Plot, Infiltrated a Secret Organization, Hunted Down a Mass Murderer, Saved Israel and Spared My Self-Respect...
Actress Cynthia Caldwell, spokesperson for the actors, said yesterday that the break with the company was "necessary in order to retain any self-respect or professional dignity." The contract was rejected unanimously...
...each case, the defendant can go to jail if he fails to fulfill the probation terms. A self-described "romantic Italian" born in Brooklyn of immigrant parents, Sepe credits the discipline of a military academy for his own trouble-free youth. As a young Florida prosecutor, he was in charge of a state narcotics-education program and "came to believe that one of the main causes of drug abuse and crime was idleness and loss of self-respect. As a judge, I decided I could do something about that...
There are further complications, but the web of plots and interrelationships ultimately amounts to a struggle of poor, generally powerless men and women to preserve what passes for dignity and self-respect--usually at each other's expense. Their problem, as Brecht shows it, is that they have no understanding of dignity beyond the sham that passes for gentility among a capitalist society's ruling class. They have a passion for outward virtue combined with an infinite corruptibility. They parody bourgeois family life, but are loyal only so far as self-protection permits. Peachum is forever misquoting scripture to defend...
...home in Rockland County, N.Y., to his job as an editor for Medical Economics magazine in Oradell, N.J., but otherwise, if the shortage continues, "I'd be stranded. No shopping, no errands, no visits." He finds that a threat not only to his mobility but to his self-respect. "After I got a hand-controlled car," he says, "people were honking at me instead of making way for me on the street. It puts me in a competitive situation with everyone else, and to have it threatened is a dreadful feeling...