Word: respectable
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...CONSERVATIVES organized around the nation that slavery's most damning legacy is not white racism but the psychological crippling of Blacks who lack the pride necessary to compete. "A central theme in Afro-American political and intellectual history is the demand for respect, the struggle to gain inclusion within the civic community, to become co-equal participants in the national enterprise," Loury wrote in a 1985 New Republic article...
...through the scorned archives of that President, makes a couple of tentative observations in these strange days. Some forces in this world, he notes, cannot be stopped by politicians. And would it not be the ultimate irony if out of our worry now comes more study of and more respect for Herbert Hoover...
While many Republican senators respondedcautiously, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), amember of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said."You like to think people who are appointed to theSupreme Court respect the law." And one seniorDemocratic congressional aide said Ginsburg was "agoner because the Republicans will not be able toabide him as their nominee...
...anti-Semitism problem by playing the hated Shylock with a measure of dignity. Portrayals of Shylock have a tendency to paint him as a bloodthirsty, raving madman, and while Miller's Shylock is appropriately vengeful and merciless, he also rarely loses his cool. He demands the justice and respect he deserves as a man but is denied because of his religion. He pleads. "If You prick us [Jews]. do we not bleed...
Bodner, who kept the chicken in her Dunsterroom before she had it killed yesterday, said,"It's better to eat something that you had arelationship with because you respect the factthat it was alive...