Word: self-respect
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...whole new world. Golden Gloves champion. Olympics gold medal winner. And a visit to President Johnson in the White House, to thank him for having fathered the Job Corps program. which he told the President gave "young people like me a chance for hope, dignity and self-respect...
POWER AND INNOCENCE by Rollo May. An eminent and eloquent psychoanalyst examines people's need for power as a basis of self-respect...
...drinking water. You might get work once every 15 days." Thanage gave his four bullocks, two buffaloes, two cows and a few goats to the Belapur sugar factory, which feeds them crushed sugar cane as fodder, and came to Bombay. "Everybody here is hungry," he adds. "Any man with self-respect would not I beg, but if it's a question of filling your stomach and there is no work, what...
...little beer, look down silently and passively on the activity of Main Street. The passivity, the looking-down, the doing-very-little first alarm and then enrage the citizens of Tarbox. Editorials are written, letters sent to the editor. Undirected manias find a focus. The town's self-respect is felt to be eroding. "People are bringing the shutters down from their attics and putting them back on their windows," Updike writes. His story ends: "The downtown seems to be tightening like a fist, a glistening clot of apoplectic signs and sunstruck stalled automobiles. And the Hillies are slowly...
...acceptance as himself. Since this warped self-expression relies on other people's pain, the goal of attaining a genuine sense of self-importance is illusory for each of the characters. After a dismally amateurish fight against a boxer weakened by age and by earlier physical punishment, Tully finally wins a victory after two years of defeat and stagnation. Too dazed at first to even recognize that he has won, and so debt-ridden that he keeps almost none of his prize money, he not only fails to realize new self-respect: he does not even satisfy his most basic...