Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last week, after long tolerating the irailties of his colleagues, the marital maverick finally shot off a thunderbolt to the Ministry of Interior. "Public rumors supported by evidence," he wrote, "show that many functionaries and government officials not only have mistresses but are seen in public with them, displaying disrespect toward their homes.'' The snapper to President Ydígoras' attempt to achieve fidelity by fiat: "Since it is unlikely that a functionary earns enough money to maintain two homes, it is urgent, in cases where proof is evident, that these officials be fired...
When he was an enlisted man, all the officers were monsters or morons. Now that he has an expensive home, family responsibilities and $20,000 a year, he is suddenly against Khrushchev and all like him, who must have loved him for all he did to help them sow disrespect in the old days...
...Father's Day Committee, he spoke out in defense of that "butt of the comic strips" and "boob of the radio and TV serials," the American father. Said Adlai, father of three and grandfather of three: "Life with father seems to have degenerated into a continuous sequence of disrespect, or tolerance at best . . . Even though we don't want him to be the autocrat of the breakfast table, I think we might consider giving him at least a polite seat at the table." Earlier in the week, Adlai received a more noteworthy tribute from ex-Senator Herbert...
Azdak dominates the rest of the work. He shelters the escaping Grand Duke, and then tragically denounces himself for he feels he had betrayed the interests of the people. Expecting to be killed, he sings a denunciation of war profiteering, and the disrespect for human life it implies...
...Enlightenment. Through it all shines his artisan's pride and shrewdness, with its traditional disrespect for aristocratic tradition ("All blood is alike ancient"), foreshadowing independence and his great role in it. Above all. Ben Franklin was a man of the 18th century Enlightenment, with its indiscriminate, omnivorous, ravenous appetite for all facts about all nature. Every blessed thing on earth (Ben had little theological curiosity) he wrote about, asked about, or collected facts about-vacuum jars, the "humors" produced by yellow fever, machines for producing static electricity (fatal to some rats), systems of government and ventilation, the geology...