Word: self-respecting
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...major strength of Fat City lies in the performances of its supporting players. As Oma. Tully's alcoholic girlfriend. Susan Tyrell slightly overdoes her part. She still succeeds, however, in projecting a child-like vulnerability and a profound sadness in her attempt to bolster an almost non-existent self-respect. Oma's black lover whom Tully temporarily displaces, Reuben, Tully's manager, and the other boxers and trainers are all excellent in their roles. Despite the small material each has to play with, they rise beyond the level of caricature to enliven the grim and unrewarding world that the movie...
...Burton had found a century earlier, the Somalis are among the bravest, vainest, crudest and also friendliest races in Africa. They possess enormous self-respect. Somalis love to fight, set great store in a killing well done, and do not mind dying. Hanley recalls coming upon a Somali who had just finished butchering a fellow tribesman. He expressed anxiety only when he realized that Hanley was not going to shoot him on the spot. "You're not going to start all that court business, are you?" asked the murderer as he was led away...
...that in 1968, when he went into seclusion in California with his chess books. Once hopeful of challenging the Russians directly, he soon realized "that it was unrealistic of me to think they would give me a match for the title. I thought that they had a lot of self-respect; you know, I thought that they were like me. I shouldn't have had to play all the qualifying rounds out, but world opinion didn't do it for me. I figured that I'd have to come back and do it myself...
Because most contemporary societies put their highest premium on profit, once a human being is surpassed in profitability, he is relegated to the junk heap. In terms of occupational potency, and the ambition to live with self-respect, old age is also a defeat...
...entered a state mental hospital through voluntary or involuntary commitment. State mental hospitals are oppressive institutions. In each, generally one thousand to two thousand patients live in understaffed, locked wards without their personal possessions. The challenge of simply coping with life in a mental institution destroys a patient's self-respect and saps his desire to work out his problems and return to life in his community. Many patients deteriorate. Many never leave. It is a disgraceful sham to call these institutions hospitals. They are human garbage dumps for communities which choose to hide their undesirable and disturbed members from...