Word: respectable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...former Michigan center, who actually played with his helmet, and very well, too--oddly enough, the notoriously clumsy Ford was probably the best athlete of any President of the 20th century. But still a big lunk: that Nixon would make Ford President, after all his yammering about respect for the office, serves as a good index of how far gone that old carpetbagger really...
...choice of purposes--a career problem, the future, self-confidence or a family situation," he explains. Pre-professionalism has clearly had an impact outside of the classroom. In what he labels a society gone back to a "scarcity model," Walters asks, "What does a young person base his self respect...
Life in the Cambridge rat race, as one might assume, doesn't bolster many people's self-confidence. Harvard is a place populated by very ambitious people," says Walters. 'You have to be ambitious to get here and to stay here--and keep your self-respect." It's not that Harvard induces depression, but rather that depression is a reaction to disappointments and college students have an inordinate amount of opportunities to be disappointed. "It's not a simple reaction to an 'F' in a course," Walters insists. "When students come to us, they're concerned not only about their...
...sometimes I wonder why children can't be born with an innate sense of respect. But at least one person has learned something about himself, because the children called him big nose...
Harvard students surveyed today greeted the findings with skepticism, and men and women alike maintained an almost chauvinistic respect for the parental potential of the American...