Word: disrespectfulness
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...Governor Rockefeller's posture towards the revolt, the appearance of Bobby Seale, and even the entreaties of the negotiating committee revealed not so much a concern for the safety of the hostages--or even a respect for law and the imperative of maintaining some semblance of order--as a disrespect for the humanity of the inmates so irrational as to border on the conspicuously neurotic...
...Broken Clown. In his film adaptation, Luchino Visconti (The Damned) pays his utmost disrespect to the original by maintaining Mann's fustian and removing his intention. In the novella, the aging Author-Philosopher Gustave Aschenbach seeks renewal in Venice. But like the fugitive with an appointment in Samarra, he finds death awaiting him. An elusive and beautiful youth, Tadzio, attracts the writer. Though he never touches his beloved, never even speaks to him. Aschenbach is rendered immobile by his platonic affair. A plague of cholera racks the city. At any time the writer is free to leave...
...letter to the CRR. Kennedy said that Rothchild's conduct showed "grave disrespect for the dignity of others." Rothchild said last night that Kennedy's failure to comment on the pond drownings "amounts to much more than grave disrespect; it amounts to murder...
...Your survey of Israeli opinion [April 12] points up that a large obstacle to peace in the Middle East is Israeli disrespect for the people who contributed to civilization nearly every technical and scientific innovation between 700 and 1500 A.D. Then the Arabs took a four-century nap. May God help his "chosen people" if the Israelis fail to see the awakening giant who is rubbing the last of the sand from his eyes...
...point in Agnew's own speech-just as the Vice President denounced media coverage of "Any extremist who dignifies our adversaries and demeans our traditions" and "unloads into millions of American living rooms his deprecations against society and disrespect for civilized law," -shaggy-haired c. Wendell Smith, 28, a reporter for the Phoenix, rose to glare at the Vice President from the center aisle...