Word: regarded
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...number of visitors, by contrast, were astounded to find that possessions for which they had little regard were worth thousands. A building superintendent who fished a landscape out of a garbage can ten years ago was assured by the experts that it was worth $6,500. A Brooklyn couple who brought in what they thought was a "Communion tray" learned that it was an enamel punch bowl crafted by a czarist court silversmith, worth up to $15,000. A Manhattan secretary who produced a battered pottery dog used as a plaything by her children was informed that...
Mental Breakdown. Pirsig is no orthodox Zen Buddhist; his equivalent of a meditative tea ceremony is tuning his engine. "A study of the art of motorcycle maintenance," he says, "is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself." In an age preoccupied with sensation, Pirsig does not regard "reason" as a dirty word. His persistent message is that thinking is feeling, a view that underlies his advice about how to prepare mentally for troubleshooting an engine. Briefly, motor maintenance requires a good deal of quiet concentration so that the underlying principles of the engine are allowed to fill...
Hoffa seems to regard the whole unpleasantness of prison life as a personal affront, as an attack on his ego. He considers his conviction on jury-tampering and mail fraud charges the result of a vendetta. Firstly, "I say I am not guilty of the crimes I was charged with, but they used a vehicle of public relations to deny me a fair trial," Hoffa says. He believes Robert Kennedy was out to get him, and his ultimate conviction was the result of the government's single-minded desire to see him put away. And Hoffa is not entirely self...
...stalwarts of the Faculty's liberal wing like Stanley Hoffman and Michael Walzer, professors of Government, told students they thought the sit-in was a tactical error and would not further the anti-ROTC cause. Even SDS-connected Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy, told the students, "You shouldn't regard the Faculty as your enemy...
Concern over détente increased last week after Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's latest visit to Moscow. Kissinger left Washington with high hopes for progress in the three days of negotiations, specifically with regard to the second round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and more generally in the brittle areas of Middle East relationships, military-force levels in Europe and U.S.-Soviet trade. But hopes were deflated by the unexpectedly hard line on the part of Soviet negotiators. By the time Kissinger headed for home-and his wedding (see THE NATION)-he was visibly worried over...