Word: self-respecting
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During his visit to Washington last month, Marcos articulated the ambivalence of many non-Communist ex-colonials who now stand on their own. "The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect," Marcos told a joint session of the U.S. Congress. "The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism...
...brush-fire war, and with the hesitant assistance of an aide de camp (Alain Delon) who falls in love with a rebel belle (Claudia Cardinale), he conducts a brilliant but brutal campaign in the interior. In the end he wins a general's stars but loses his self-respect...
...Whitey" is now offering the Negro the kind of power that really counts-the kind that builds self-respect, the power of knowledge, which is neither white nor black. This power cannot be donated; it demands something that the Negro as a group has not yet had the chance to demonstrate-learning power...
...kind. "The slogan 'Black power' is misleading," said James Farmer, CORE'S former national director. "The program needs much refinement and understanding of the subtleties. It should not be antiwhite; it should not be black racist; it should not be assertively violent. But it should preach self-respect and group pride to those who have been without respect and pride, while heralding a historic, democratic American doctrine: that those who are hurting must develop political power to remove their own hurt. The subtlety lies in tempering power with compassion and humanity. If the slogan 'Black power...
Only his undertaking business guarantees Gennaro a measure of self-respect. To save it, he turns into a thief and hijacks the contents of a warehouse, but is interrogated and tortured by the police. At last the business collapses; dying old man and desperate young boy are turned out of their tumble-down tenement; Gennaro is stripped of everything-except his roaring Neapolitan zest for life...