Word: self-respect
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...express the gratitude of the Japanese people to General MacArthur . . . is not to worship him as a god but to cast away the servile spirit and gain the self-respect that would not bow its head to anybody. Only thus would MacArthur rest content...
...victims of this creeping apoplexy are found, after death, to be covered with hundreds of "infarcts" where a tiny blood clot has choked off the surrounding tissues. (As an old lady once told Alvarez: "Death takes little bites.") Symptoms: overnight the victim ages quickly, becomes querulous, may lose his self-respect, may deteriorate morally...
...York as a free-lance cartoonist at 21, he loved the place "at first sight; I've been faithful to it ever since." He was somewhat less faithful in other respects ("I'm the poor man's Tommy Manville") but even now he salvages some self-respect from the fact that he loved only one woman at a time. For his speakeasy pals he maintains a sturdy, juvenile affection. They were uniformly great tosspots and great guys. How to Grow Old Disgracefully is full of their gags and practical jokes. The common denominator of these friendships...
...page dissent, uncompromising James Marshall, Republican lawyer and former board president, called the majority decision "little less than condoning . . . bigotry. . . ." Said he: May Quinn should have been fired. The New York Herald Tribune seconded him: "So mild a rebuke for such an arrant affront to the cause of mutual self-respect constitutes a grave setback to the cause of tolerance in our public schools...
...expressed in the words 'Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.' There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery. ... It has a hundred fine names-Achilles' wrath and Coriolanus' grandeur, Revenge and Injured Merit and Self-Respect and Tragic Greatness and Proper Pride...