Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Contemporary writing often shows a "disrespect for structure" and a lack of concern for "the right and correct," Barbara Tuchman '33, author of "The Guns of August," said yesterday in a talk sponsored by The Writing Center...
...reasons for bad discharges range from anti-war protests to problems indirectly caused or aggravated by the war, such as racial conflict and drug abuse. Sometimes the reasons are listed vaguely as "apathy" or "disrespect." Men who never should have been drafted in the first place received bad discharges only because they were too much trouble to train. They are the victims of overeager recruiters seeking to fill quotas swollen by the war. The list of warcaused injustices accounting for bad discharges is almost endless...
...eulogy, Cardinal Dearden noted that the city is in the grip of "a violence which comes from a profound and deep malaise . . . and a moral weakness that is reflected in a disrespect for human life." As he spoke, a wailing police siren drowned out some of his words...
...letter, Spellman singled out the case of Ephraim Isaac, associate professor of Afro-American Studies, as the basis for his belief that "the administration's attitude toward our faculty varies from disrespect to contempt...
...they chased and ate. A Cree family band ranges over hundreds of square miles, fishing and hunting with the strict procedures and skill that amount to ritual. Bear bones, for example, are never thrown to the dogs. The Cree believe that animals shun being captured by people who show disrespect...