Word: self-respecting
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Shaw's personae are the languishing leisure class engaged in social masquerade: "How are we to have any self-respect," complains the fraudulent investor, "if don't keep it up that we're better than we really are?" And to top it off, there is mad Captain Shotover endlessly traversing the stage in search of the seventh degree of concentration, leaving behind him a wake of nonsensical criticism, and them harrumphing back across the stage with still more. Yes, Heartbreak House is a madhouse--but it is England as well...
Knoll reflects the attitude of virtually every player on the squad--that Nahigian is finally adding the intangibles of self-respect and professionalism to a tangibly sound Harvard baseball program...
...Connally, who comes out of the assertive Southwest border tradition, probably would have handled the matter differently. Or so he indicated last week as he roared through his native land, proclaiming that "we seem to have lost our zest for strong leadership-we have to recapture our pride and self-respect before others can feel...
...show's end, this musical tries to end happily. From some hidden reserve of strength each actress, albeit somewhat tentatively, decides that she has the power to start from scratch one more time. And if the shift from mental shambles to self-conscious self-respect is a little abrupt, the energy of the company makes up for the inconsistency. Simply: the actresses and musicians in Children are very, very good and they overcome to a large degree the mediocre aspects of the production. Though the show has its share of problems, it still stands out as one of the best...
...only then conclude that the authors then equate self-respect with (a) a massive and determined drive to "make it to the top" and (b) a willingness to sacrifice friends and friendships in order to attain this. It would seem to me that the above two qualities manage to sum up quite concisely everything that is wrong, offensive and self-destructive in the character of the traditional American male: the obsessive tendency to predicate one's valuation of oneself entirely on one's occupational successes and an inability to derive satisfaction and security from personal relationships. Surely if one does...