Word: self-respecting
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...years, has so many people saying "great" and "super" in quaint Scottish gurgles that one wishes Porky would pop in and mutter some indescribable obscenity. Forsyth is to be commended, however, for his ability to remain bemused at all times, even when the urge to mutter pseudo-profundities about self-respect becomes almost unbearable...
...then, if he has any self-respect, and any respect for the product he edits, can Janeway claim a total victory...
Even so, Barley does not patronize his hosts. After all, he concludes, they have freedom, sex, beer and self-respect. But he is not tempted to impose ideological order on the culture or to use its values to flog the folks back home. He returns to Britain ravaged by illness, permanently suspicious of * anthropological field reports and "uncritically grateful to be a Westerner, living in a culture that seems suddenly very precious and vulnerable...
...prove itself better than the other while all the other "little" countries try to show the superpowers up. If I support such a drastic action as divestment, an Olympic boycott would seem natural. After all, a boycott-supporter might justifiably ask, how can a Black man with any self-respect compete with a "representative" of South Africa's racist regime...
...passivity, acquiesence and lack off self-respect many women learn at home; is only reinforced by the normative; definitions of feminity pervading our culture. What begins in the family is, compounded daily, in social interactions, movies, ads and television...