Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gathering as a gesture to win support from liberals. Carter had never been much of a party man, and during the campaign had made a point of stressing his independence from the Democratic organization. During his first year in office, he remained an outsider and commanded little respect within party ranks...
...last name was Meir, but few Israelis ever thought of her as anything but Golda. To many people, her face was an appropriate symbol of Israel itself: strong, disarmingly homely, above all tough. It was a face that inspired love but also demanded respect-and the operative word was "demanded." Golda was of that generation of pioneers who built the Jewish state; she served as its Prime Minister through five years and one war. When she died last week at the age of 80, from the complications of lymphoma, an illness she had kept secret for twelve years, she still...
...only then conclude that the authors then equate self-respect with (a) a massive and determined drive to "make it to the top" and (b) a willingness to sacrifice friends and friendships in order to attain this. It would seem to me that the above two qualities manage to sum up quite concisely everything that is wrong, offensive and self-destructive in the character of the traditional American male: the obsessive tendency to predicate one's valuation of oneself entirely on one's occupational successes and an inability to derive satisfaction and security from personal relationships. Surely if one does...
...Wagner of Staten Island fame in the IAB and Boston College is on tap in the Garden on Saturday. A couple of wins this week and Harvard could establish itself as a New England power and silence McLaughlin's Rodney Dangerfieldsque complaints that the Crimson don't get no respect. HARVARD FG FT REB F A TP Harris 7-12 1-2 6 1 1 15 Hooft 8-13 0-0 4 3 2 16 Coatsworth 1-2 1-2 4 4 5 3 Allen 6-7 1-1 4 2 4 13 Fine...
Much of Perry's enthusiasm stems from his great respect for Harvard students. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of University Health Services and long-time colleague of the bureau's director, said yesterday...