Word: self-respect
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...diminish my ministry." But if he ever does switch to political crusades, his views would resemble those of his friend the candidate. Like Nixon, Graham considers that the Supreme Court has "gone too far" in favoring criminals. He supports Black Power, but only if it means "a feeling of self-respect," not violence or civil disobedience. He believes that the demonstrators at the Democratic Convention in Chicago (where he also gave an invocation) were "wonderful kids, idealists-but manipulated by a small, well-organized hard core that wanted a confrontation." The Chicago police, he says, "overreacted," but he adds that...
...need to fight evil, or Nicholas Ray's Party Girl and the fascinating conflicts between man and a hostile environment. Hitchcock's commercial suspense thrillers discuss serious questions of the nature of guilt and redemption; even Hawks's funniest "screwball" comedies treat with equal gravity the need for self-respect in an emasculating world...
...psychotic children, Bettelheim has removed all rules about bodily elimination. Elimination any time, anywhere, is preferred to withholding or self-inflicted constipation. If a child hits, kicks or bites, he is not fought or punished but is pacified; later his therapists seek the reasons why. Argues Bettelheim: "A spanking achieves a short-range goal, but it has a price tag-degradation and anger -that I am not willing to pay. My task is to build up self-respect. And I believe people do the right thing not because they are scared to death but because their self-respect requires...
Splitting hairs a bit, Bettelheim refutes those who charge that he is too permissive. "I ask these children to act rationally, to have self-respect, to take cognizance of reality. That is not permissive. That is asking an awful...
...doubt of the School's concern with the ghetto's agony. The decision to recruit minority group students showed a realistic appraisal of the way the Ed School can best meet the city's needs: producing trained minority group professionals who can lead their communities to independence and self-respect. In voting to pay for the education of the new students out of their own pockets, the Faculty made an extraordinary gesture, and underlined the urgency of the crisis...