Word: self-respect
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...most vital and exciting styles in music today is something called Blue Grass Music. By a combination of misunderstandings, a lack of widespread exposure, and the uncompromising self-respect of its major proponents who have down through the years refused to be treated as commercial properties, very few people are aware (1) that the style exists, or (2) if they were, that it is still alive. This is a pity, because a healthy art form is a precious commodity in the United States today...
...Crimson doomed itself to its first losing season since 1957 by losing to Brown last week, so a loss to Yale will not significantly hurt it in the Ivy standings. But a Harvard victory, no matter how unimpressive, will salvage a measurable amount of self-respect for a squad that has suffered disappointment after disappointment throughout a season in which it was favored to defend a league title...
...Brazil, Burma, Germany, Holland, Norway; indeed from any country where well-trained men can be found to do this sort of work. Its forty-five advisers, stationed in six remote countries of the world, stubbornly work away at the task of raising the living standards, the hopes, and the self-respect of some of the most miserable people in existence. If their work requires them to take on the U.S. government, or the World Bank, or an indifferent local bureaucracy, that is all in the day's chores. Sometimes they work with governments that they can admire, sometimes with governments...
...watching TV, you're sitting opposite the live machine and doing nothing, instead of doing nothing in your bed or at the end of the hall. This form of doing nothing is acceptable to yourself, to other patients, and to the nurses. You can in an abstract way maintain self-respect: "I'm not doing nothing, I'm watching...
Sixty years ago last week, Sigmund Freud paid his only visit to the U.S. to deliver a series of five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. The $750 fee was a great help to the hard-pressed doctor, and the warm reception, he later noted, "encouraged my self-respect in every way." Now a collection of 13 letters discovered in the basement of Clark's library indicates that Freud kept up a correspondence with the university's president, Psychologist G. Stanley Hall. The letters abound with expressions of gratitude and courtesy. But one with a sharper tone...