Word: self-respecting
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...Folles (for which Fierstein wrote the book) plays to standing room audiences down the street. And so what is Fierstein trying to say in these works? It is not a political statement about homosexuality, nor it is an apology. The idea he expresses so eloquently is one of self-respect, of realizing one's worth and striving for what one desires and deserves. It is this honesty, and this universality, that makes Torch Song Trilogy the critical and commercial success...
...Thomas Aquinas Just War Award: to a Mather House candidate who bemoans the concrete jungle's crowding and strict no-alcohol policies, and says on his poster, "Let's face it. Mather House gets no respect... The self-respect of our House and ourselves is worth fighting for. I place myself in the service of that struggle and ask for your support...
...Carlisle (Levi L. Knebel) may appear in profile against the Iowa sky, they are still vulnerable to being devoured in the tractor tracks of bureaucracy. And Gil, a defiant homesteader who can't take maybe for an answer, is in danger of losing his family and his self-respect when he realizes the enormity of his predicament...
...against Joe (Danton Stone) and Darlene (Laurie Metcalf), a couple too amiable or dense to survive the Nighttown scene till morning. "They every one of them steal," one denizen grumbles, and steal they do: money, drugs, a cup of coffee, a shred of strutting self-respect, another minute of free-for-all banter before collapsing in sleep or death...
...reach of the average family, and an egalitarian society was no longer some impossible ideal. Automobile ownership, reported Robert and Helen Lynd in Middletown, soon became "an accepted essential of normal living." Even in the abyss of the Depression, families clung to their cars as the American emblem of self-respect...