Word: respected
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Cures & Movie Stars. Twenty years ago, few would have walked across the street to listen to Alfred Korzybski. Today, as founder of a whole new system of thought called general semantics,* he has hundreds of followers all-over the world, and the respect of many scientists and scholars. Disciples have written articles on his subject ranging from "General Semantics and Dentistry" to "General Semantics and the Teaching of Physics." Doctors, using general semantics, have claimed it helped cure everything from alcoholism to frigidity. There are General Semantics Societies in twelve cities from Winnipeg to Sydney. Sample members: Architect Frank Lloyd...
...which must be suppressed. The suppression, in turn, often leads to neuroses in later life. Freud believed that the mother-son Oedipus complex was inevitable. Fromm thinks that there is a way to avoid the father-son Oedipus complex: let parents be less domineering, and let them have more respect for a child's rights...
...Public Respect Drops...
...Battery D began to give him grudging respect. He was fair. He claimed no special privileges and showed no favors. Then one black night, on a bald knoll in the Vosges-as the boys told it-Battery D fired the first salvo of the war for the green 35th Division. Promptly a German battery answered back. A Battery D sergeant yelled: "They got us bracketed. Every man for himself." Panic seized the Battery. Over the din came the voice of Battery D's prissy captain: "I'm gonna shoot the first son-of-a-bitch who leaves...
With All Due Respect Lawrence Tibbett, now in his 26th year of baritoning for the Metropolitan Opera, was given a little backstage party and a few handsome knickknacks in honor of the first 25 years. Still in costume from Benjamin Britten's gloomy Peter Grimes (see cut), Larry told his coworkers: "An expression of love from your colleagues is the dearest and most stimulating thing in the world. Now look at what you've done! Tonight you've started me off on another 25 years...