Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between generations is nothing new. Socrates bitterly attacked youth's "bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for their elders. Children nowadays are tyrants." All through history, denouncing the young has been a tonic for tired blood. More important, defying elders is hygienic for the young. A child's task is self-definition; unless he can distinguish himself from his culture, though on the culture's terms, a boy never quite becomes a man. Growing up is a dialectical process that requires things that one can push against in order to become stronger. It takes limited war against...
...have seen the idiots in short pants slog through the marshes in Glacier Park to photograph a moose's eyeballs (the moose is about as nasty and unpredictable as the grizzly). I have seen them literally load bears into their cars in Yellowstone. It's stupid disrespect for nature and it's gettting worse. I can't blame the bears for mistaking people for garbage; it's sometimes hard for me to tell the difference...
...free-floating hippies flying "an impossible, ultimate kite" over the East River; and Philip Roth incants a Newark ghetto boyhood in The Jewish Blues. ("The goyim pretended to be something special, while we were actually their moral superiors. And what made us superior was precisely the hatred and the disrespect they lavished so willingly upon...
...Problem Kids. Backed by the Albany Board of Education, Becker has proved that tough but fair discipline is a remarkable impetus to learning. There are no broken windows at Schuyler High School, and rarely is disrespect shown to teachers. None of the students are permitted to sport Beatle haircuts or far-out clothes. Becker tells them sim ply: "The other students are not in school to look at you. You're here to learn." Schuyler High will even accept potential reform-school candidates. One such student was recommended for enrollment by the Albany police after he had stolen...
...employed for years as a Veterans Administration attorney in Washington. His mother Helen was the driving force in the upbringing of Eddie and his older sister Helene. At public gatherings, Brooke introduces his mother in almost worshipful terms. And he often recalls her apron-string homilies. On women: "Never disrespect a woman no matter how she comports herself; remember your mother is a woman." On racial prejudice: "People are people; you take them as you find them." On honesty: "If you can't tell me something, all right; but don't come and tell me something that isn't true...