Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worst when he is hated and despised. "Fail to honor people, they will fail to honor you." But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, The people will say, "We did this ourselves...
...triumph, of course, was short-lived and for the most part a mistaken one, as the events that followed in rapid succession over the next year would clearly indicate. Kennedy was murdered, Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey vied for the honor of becoming the lesser evil, the events and reaction to the Democratic Convention in Chicago proved unequivocally where the heart of the nation was and pointed out the tremendous schisms that existed even between the New and Old Left. By 1969, Nixon was firmly ensconced in the White House with a mandate to clear the streets of the renegades...
...fashion by the unexpected injection of foreign elements. A handsome young man and a Polish lady acrobat drop in quite literally by crashing their aeroplane into the family greenhouse. And a timid would-be gunman secrets himself in the portable Turkish bath in order to avenge his mother's honor by attacking Mr. Tarleton. The volatile Pole, Lina Szczepanowska, puts her finger on how little takes place in this English family when she accuses the Tarletons and their guests: "You seem to think of nothing but making love. All the conversation here is about love-making...
...earlier opposed. In one cruelly hilarious sequence, Mimi seduces the wife of the petty official who has cuckolded him with his wife. The women's gross flesh is the field of battle on which Mimi struggles to gain vengeance and restore what he insists upon thinking is his honor. In the end he just barely remains standing in the rubble of his double standard...
...also offers a modest proposal for saving ourselves from nuclear self-destruction. He suggests that we program into the computers that aim our intercontinental missiles the instruction not to fire until we have acquired complete information about one living thing. He even offers as a candidate for this honor a protozoan called Myxotricha paradoxa, which lives in the innermost reaches of Australian termites' digestive tracts...