Word: self-respect
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...ultimate pleasures? If we are at all enlightened, would either of us be any the worse off for it tomorrow?'' He answers that he would be. "For one thing,'' Georgie says, going on to mention two things, "my conscience would be wrecked, my self-respect demolished." The double-barreled cadence of this speech is almost perfectly unlike anything ever uttered in shy confusion by a college vice president. Only the unreflective, however, will conclude from this that Georgie Winthrop is a wretchedly bad book. With the boldness of a man who knows his own worth...
...Gaulle's scornful phrase; parties that represent no "doctrine" but only a "clientele." The election went far toward resolving the conflict between France's old. divisively individualist parliamentary tradition and the strong presidential system that De Gaulle believes is essential if France is to achieve stability and self-respect...
...story of Gittel's affair with a visiting fireman who has run out of steam, a lawyer (Robert Mitchum) from Omaha whose problems gee with Gittel's. She has been a doormat for men, he has been a lap dog for his wife. He needs self-reliance, she needs self-respect...
...most important factor in the changing of the South, King believes, is the change in the Negro himself. "Something happened to the Negro," says King. "He has come to feel that he is somebody and with this new sense of 'somebodiness' and self-respect, a new Negro has emerged with a new determination to achieve freedom and human dignity whatever the cost...
...appropriations bill that would have sent federal money to Georgia. He was particularly interested in a $1.600.000 grant to set up a peanut research laboratory. Against the House's recalcitrance, Russell made an issue of Senate prerogatives. Cried he: "If the Senate has an ounce of self-respect, it will stay in session until Christmas, if it takes this to establish our position as a co-equal body in every respect." Russell finally announced that with "a heavy heart" he had given way on the peanut laboratory...