Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most wanton exercises of filmed violence marking Jaws and The French Connection), and he winds up in the ward for the criminally insane. Like some Hieronymus Bosch painting suddenly come to life, the ward makes the rest of Sagmalcilar seem like Allenwood in comparison. Any glimmer of self-respect and dignity has been apparently extinguished in Billy Hayes as he wanders zombie-like among the blubbering semblances of human beings that populate the ward...
...crowd, shut up for the first time that evening by honest respect and interest, rolled back into chatter and some clowned on the mat for pictures, gorilla suits and numerous show-biz kids taking pictures of themselves...
...Duncan Hines packing plant. "I had taken great pains to convince the men I was working with that I could do a competent job--I'd specifically requested that the workers train me so that they could get to know me personally and I could earn their respect...One of the women who followed me made a point of correcting the men when they called her a girl instead of a woman. Then when they referred to me as a girl I knew they were using it derogatorily...Why did she have to alienate them that way? It didn...
...have chosen their research topic will be left to get on with it. They may or may not see their supervisor regularly--but there will be few or no "programmes," graduate classes, seminars or the like. At the age of 21 or 22 you will be accorded the respect of being an independent scholar, and left to produce the goods. It can be frightening--but also exhilarating...
...avoid the predicament President Carter found himself in after a year in office, having initiated a dozen reforms while having completed few; they want to learn their way around the University bureaucracy, carefully investigate what kind of substantive reforms the assembly can realistically pursue, and slowly build up the respect of their undergraduate constituents by succeeding when attempting change...