Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shake 'n' Bake, heat 'n' serve? Did I tell you the one about the traveling salesman, or the minister, the rabbi and the priest? The humor of our times would baffle you to distraction. A contemporary comedian brings down the house by relating situations in which he receives no respect...
...also the causes of her defiance that force me to admire that elusive little nobody. These causes are very simple and stem from something that she and I share intimately: our incurable * materialism, our greater predilection for the pleasures of the body than for those of the soul, our respect for the senses and instinct, our preference for this earthly life over any other." In making this pronouncement, Vargas Llosa satisfies his own craving: to make love to a masterpiece in public...
Smiles come hard, alas, when a property is treated with too much respect. Crimes of the Heart won a Pulitzer Prize, not a Nobel. But this kudos can be a curse. Once a play becomes the play, moviemakers like Bruce Beresford (at best an unobtrusive director of human traffic without a natural camera style) attach undue reverence to each line of dialogue. Nobody considers that words spoken in a theater may fall flat in a movie house without the ricochet rhythm provided by audience laughter; everybody concerned tiptoes through the property as if it were the Victoria and Albert Museum...
Most of all, minority professors hope that their white colleagues on the faculty recognize and respect their differences...
Carty-Bennia sums up this view: "We'e got to have continued discussions of our differences. If we respect those differences by acknowledging them, then we'll go a long...