Word: self-respect
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...answers to a curious-and sometimes bemused-off-island audience. As Leonard Mather, 50, a spectator along the processional route, put it: "We haven't got much any more in this country, but we do have our monarchy. It's a big part of what gives us self-respect...
Teachers say they favor the dress code (no blue jeans or tennis shoes except for gym; socks a must at all times) because it encourages "self-respect and a conscious effort on the part of the children." Students are also forbidden to eat, sing or "play" on the school bus. Spray paint cans and Magic Markers are not allowed in the building: the school's yellow walls are clean, its corridors and classrooms quiet...
...Friday, April 25, Carter told the nation that a U.S. military raid to rescue the hostages had been aborted, leaving the burned bodies of eight servicemen behind in the Iranian desert. In the next days, Americans gloomily sifted the rubble of their hopes and the nation's self-respect. Why had three of eight Sea Stallion helicopters failed? What was wrong with our equipment, or our nerve? Had there been a reasonable chance of success or was Carter's raid an ill-advised act of desperation? Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who had opposed any military rescue attempt...
Women's autonomy and rights are violated not only by the actual occurrence of violence but by the fear of violence as well. This well justified fear fosters dependence and undermines a woman's self-respect. She is told to be conscious of her lack of power; to constantly think "I can't..." Whether this inhibits her from majoring in physics, a "man's major," or from walking to the library, the effect on her self-image is the same. As Adrienne Rich writes...
...quest of selfdiscovery. His father Moe (John Randolph) is a proud man who has followed the immigrant path to affluence, only to suffer the humiliating descent to penury. Miller has always been an astute observer of how a man's dignity is emasculated when he loses his economic self-respect, and Ran dolph is shatteringly poignant in this role...