Word: self-respecting
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...EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS, by Paul Zindel, is about how a misunderstood high school girl wins adulation and new self-respect by doing a science project even though her mother is crazy, but it's a good play anyway. Lots of high drama and tension and funny lines and that stuff. Opens tonight at 7:30 at the Loeb Ex; tickets are free, as always, but it doesn't hurt to pick them up in advance...
...Middle East war entered its third bitter and bloody week with no clear end in sight, as the Israelis continued to fight, in their view, for the security of their state and the Arabs to try to regain their lost territories and their self-respect. From opposite sides of the globe the two superpowers, the Soviet Union and the U.S., funneled ever larger supplies of arms, ammunition and aid to their respective allies locked in combat, even as they moved dramatically to press for the terms of a peace...
...movie entertains no visions of romance or purity. The eaters have nothing beautiful to look back on, having left behind--in the world outside their death-trap--crummy, undistinguished lives. Stripped now of the final vestiges of self-respect, they devote themselves to total self-abasement. (And the women who are their companions in degradation are in every way their moral equals...
...United States could withdraw without losing anything except a few sacred ideals and a few of the war industries that were keeping the economy booming. However unpleasant these losses, they were, to increasing numbers of liberals, insignificant beside the effects of the war-influenced inflation and the loss of self-respect contingent on continuing to bomb and kill and die in defense of a corrupt and totalitarian state...
...Ball Poem" reflects the same "epistemology of loss" in a young boy's missing ball. More than anything else, Berryman's dreams are real laments, laced with shattered hopes and withered ideals. Alan Severance too, has very little left to hang onto. His fight for some kind of self-respect is doomed from the beginning...