Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many Laborites regard Jenkins as a cultural snob with no taste for the rough give and take of either domestic or international politics. The son of a Welsh coal miner who became parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Jenkins was a student at Oxford's Balliol College, where he took first honors in politics, philosophy and economics. He also acquired an upper-class "mandarin" accent, excellent French and a taste for claret and opera-none of which are especially valued by the party's old guard...
...this reason, connoisseurs of Nippon-tō are apt to regard the military uses of their swords as a distraction, even as an embarrassment. The annals of samurai conduct are filled with prodigies of sword wielding: as recently as the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, for instance, a Japanese officer charged a Russian machine gun, so the story goes, and cut clean through its barrel and water jacket with one swipe of his tachi. But the art swords in this show were not meant for such ends. Their unblemished state testifies that they can rarely, if ever, have seen battle...
President Valery Giscard d'Estaing would regard devaluation as a defeat and will hold out as long as he can-with some reason. A drop in a currency's value makes imports more expensive. That aggravates inflation, which tends to weaken the currency still further. The floating-rate system has made adjustments in money values smoother and continuous; it has not made them painless...
...split. Cartier Ltd. in London maintained close ties with Paris' Cartier S.A., which clung to classic haute joaillerie with designs rooted in the 19th century. Cartier Inc. in New York tried to be more responsive to changes in fashion. One resuit: some world-traveling Cartier customers came to regard the New York store as shamefully declasse. Says Socialite Betsy Pickering: "There is no comparison between it and the Paris store. In the past decade it [the New York house] has not been a quality store-one never went there. They opened up the store to too many customers...
Alan, realizing all this, becomes less and less sure that he should be reforming the Xixi, and more and more drawn into their tribal rites. From the beginning, since he is in their village, they regard him as a young member of the tribe; and as Alan's ability to rationalize his supposed role there diminishes, he comes to accept this interpretation too, going through marriage and initiation into the tribe. Americanizing the Xixi is an impossible task, and learning their language is not a thing that can be done with the Widener Library detachment to which Alan is accustomed...