Word: respectable
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Calvino does his best to avoid these traps and usually succeeds. I am pleased to note, for example, that Pin learns nothing in the course of the novel. In writing about Calvino upon his death in 1985, Gore Vidal said, "He looks; he describes; he has a scientist's respect for data (the opposite of the surrealist or fantasist)." He is here absolutely right; nothing that happens is unbelievable (although a prison escape strains credulity), but it is all quite weird and foreign to a life lived outside of wartime...
...club's co-Prime Minister, Paul D. Todgham '99, says seeing Americans come to the dinner gives him more Canadian self-respect. "We are by nature interested in the U.S., but to have someone take an interest in Canada is special...
...Personally, I was real fired up, I had something to prove," Menick said. "A lot of people may be losing respect for Harvard because we were 0-3 coming into this game, and I'm saying to myself going into this game I'm not going to let that happen...
...believe we have not done as well as we might have with respect to recruiting talented people of color to our staff and management positions," Martin said. "We are looking to see how we can appear more promising to talented individuals from minority groups...
...this respect, Sibal S. Holt, secretary-treasurer of the Louisiana chapter of the AFL-CIO, said she saw the Institute of Politics event as a success...