Word: honour
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Mister President, we accept this great honour bestowed upon us today as a symbol of how South African and the United States, Africa and the West, the developing and the developed world, are reaching out and joining hands as partners in building a world order that equally benefits all nations and people of the world...
...Luxmore before being posted, on his maiden spying mission, to Panama. He recalls Luxmore warming to the topic at hand: "Not only have the Americans signed a totally misbegotten treaty with the Panamanians--given away the shop, thank you very much Mr. Jimmy Carter!--they're also proposing to honour it." A frightful power vacuum will occur, Luxmore argues, when the U.S. cedes control of the Panama Canal to the Panamanians on Dec. 31, 1999. "Our task--your task--will be to provide the grounds, young Mr. Osnard, the arguments, the evidence needful to bring our American allies to their...
Egoyan and his 1986 film, "Family Viewing," gained international media attention when director Wim Wenders declined his award for "Wings of Desire" at the 1987 Montreal Film Festival saying, "This is a great honour, but I ask you to give the award to my Canadian colleague, Atom Egoyan." Since then, Egoyan has become a regular at every major international festival, a member of the jury at the 1995 Sundance Festival, and a darling of both critics and audiences for films such as "Speaking Parts" (1989), "The Adjuster" (1991) and "Calendar" (1993). Egoyan is currently working on Elsewhereness, an opera...
...skirmishes with superiors who thought, correctly, that he lacked discipline. As Stannard mildly notes, "Waugh's habit of striding into offices and demanding attention irritated the military bureaucrats." By the time he died of a coronary thrombosis at 63, Brideshead Revisited (published in 1945) and the Sword of Honour trilogy (completed in 1961) had sealed his reputation as one of the century's great masters of English prose. They had also established him as an elitist, antiquarian crank who was both literally and figuratively deaf to a modern world of "plastics, Picasso, sunbathing and jazz" that he found as alienating...