Word: self-respect
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...Each Other (Columbia), something like an 83-minute footnote to the Hippocratic oath, is about a young coaltown M.D. (Charlton Heston) who goes to the big city and becomes a society doctor. As the money piles up, his stock of self-respect goes down, and in the end he drops the rich practice and the rich girl (Lizabeth Scott) who goes with it, heads back to the mining town-or is it the sexy nurse (Dianne Foster)?-that really needs him. Dr. Heston treats his patients with a pre-med manner of such overbearing superiority that he makes the saving...
...chain . . . Only leisure can rehabilitate the overstressed mechanism of the mind . . ." But mere idleness is not the answer. The kind of leisure men need in a machine-age civilization is rather some spare-time task or occupation "that makes some call on their intelligence and restores their self-respect, transforming them once more from cogs in a machine to men among...
...Prewitt, humiliating him, and finally killing him. Like a brilliant freshman who flunks out by ignoring exams as an imposition on his freedom, Prewitt is a born soldier who masters and loves all the mechanical; aspects of the Army, but who can not accept its small demands on his self-respect...
...Malolos in Bulacan Province, wan, frail President Elpidio Quirino pleaded with the voters. "Give me another chance, if only to complete all the projects you want me to complete." In Manila, Ramon Magsaysay solicited votes in confident tones. "The Filipino people want back their self-respect, their sense of honor and their dignity. They can have these things back only by replacing those who have taken them away...
...detaining side" (which means, in effect, that a U.S. or other trusted U.N. officer will watch every Red attempt to cajole the prisoners). The text provides that: "No force or threat of force shall be used . . . and no violence to their persons or affront to their dignity or self-respect shall be permitted ..." The fate of anti-Communist prisoners who refuse to go home will be discussed by a post-truce political conference; if the conference fails to agree on their disposition within 30 days, the prisoners will be transferred to civilian status and helped to go to "neutral nations...