Word: self-respect
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...colored children are educated in separate schools. Congress votes public moneys to separate charities . . . Trades unions . . . maintain and march in separate organizations." Accordingly, the ICC defined its 1887 segregation policy for railroads to "aim at a result most likely to conduce to peace and order and to preserve the self-respect and dignity of citizenship of a common country." Coming up to 1955, the ICC last week quoted the recent rulings of the Supreme Court against segregation on interstate railroad sleeping and dining cars, in the public schools, parks and playgrounds...
...Self-Respect & Dignity." "It is hardly open to question that much progress in improved race relations has been made," said the ICC, "and that more can be expected . . . We are therefore now free to place greater emphasis on steps 'to preserve the self-respect and dignity of citizenship of a common country,' which this commission in 1887 balanced against 'peace and order...
Next cliché: he decides to quit, go back to New York, find a play he believes in, recover his self-respect. Enter the Big Producer (Rod Steiger), who would be the silliest ogre since Jack and the Beanstalk if he were not at the same time a frighteningly close caricature of a well-known Hollywood type-the self-made magnate who demonstrates in his person, as Fred Allen once remarked, "the horrors, of unskilled labor." Producer lays it on the line: sign the contract or go to jail (for the hit-and-run killing of a girl, committed while...
...meet their immediate problems. If we do not do so, they may temporarily turn away. But underneath such surface dissatisfactions lies, I feel, a sense of respect for the United States because we at least try to live by principle. Certainly that is essential to our own sense of self-respect...
Every college possessing any self-respect possesses a football team and the stars of each team are highly paid. The American universities profit through this practice alone fifty million dollars in one transitory season. These modern gladiators receive on the basis of their brutal loutish swindling, a scholarship plus a bonus which averages fifty dollars for each game. Indeed, on close examination, no other type of player may be seen on the thousands of professional teams participating in this wild, catch-as-catch-can style of game...