Word: self-respect
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...stupid, confused, worried sick, and for all his bitterness and bullying, wants eagerly to be liked. The acting is first-rate, not only by Garfield, but by Shelley Winters, deglamorized as the simple, forlorn pickup whose home he invades, by Wallace Ford as her father, grimly swallowing his self-respect, and Selena Royle as the distraught mother...
...Postponed a vote on the bill to send wheat to famine-threatened India. Reason: congressional wrath at Prime Minister Nehru's statement that no strings must be attached; he would not barter away India's "self-respect or freedom of action even for something we need so badly." The House was mad because it hadn't attached any strings...
...friends can stop [La Prensa's] presses for a time, but when they have been dismissed to an ugly little footnote in history, the spirit of La Prensa will emerge again, because it is the spirit of man's self-respect. It can be trampled on, but it can never be killed...
...problem is the heart of the play, though there's also the parallel story of Honey Brown, who also does not belong. He is a Negro who wants to preserve his self-respect (in a Georgia town), to take his natural place in the world of men--to be a "member of the world." Both his and Frankie's attempts to solve their problems by swift action are bound to be failures: Frankie cannot go away with her brother and sister-in-law, Honey cannot achieve self-respect by refusing to say "sir" to Frankie's father. Later, both attempt...
...Prewitt and First Sergeant Milton Anthony Warden are both good soldiers, thirty-year men who love the Army. Prewitt suffers from a naive belief that he has retained some individual rights; throughout the book, the Army's dealings with him consist of a vicious, continued assault on his self-respect. After brutal treatment in a disciplinary Stockade, Pewitt kills a guard and goes AWOL; in the end, he is shot by MP's while trying to rejoin his unit after Pearl Harbor...