Word: respected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation she asked more than a smile; she asked respect: "Whatever you do, do not give me your pity. No woman ever felt as proud as I do of the marvelous heritage of my own people . . . They had always maintained the right of the individual to his own liberty ... of his person and ... of his soul. . . Placed before the terrible choice of surrendering those rights or of dying in their defense, they never hesitated . . . Pity is for the weak, and our terrible fate has made us stronger than ever before...
Professor Anton R. Zhebrak is a Soviet geneticist who has enjoyed international respect. Like most reputable scientists, he has believed in the Morgan-Mendelian theory of genetics (i.e., hereditary characteristics are controlled by genes which cannot be altered by ordinary environmental conditions). That belief made him a heretic in Russia, where science must take the Communist view that Environment Is All. Last year Zhebrak was roundly denounced by Pravda for admitting in the U.S. weekly, Science, that many Russian geneticists still uphold Mendel's laws (TIME, Sept...
...Lindbergh, science "intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition." Once science has helped mankind to separate "the truths of God . . . from the dogma which surrounds them ... we still have the possibility, here in America, of building a civilization based on Man, where . . . leadership rests on the respect and confidence it instills in others, and whose standard of life is the quality of life itself...
...Samuel Cardinal Stritch told the Summer School of Catholic Action: "Let us admit that we are not succeeding in presenting the Christian ideal so that it fires the imagination and enthusiasm of our fellow men. Perhaps too many of us are indulging in compromise and yielding to fear . . . Human respect makes us tolerant of compromise. Let us Set away from that." Members of the school picked Bing Crosby as "the Catholic layman who has made the most important contribution to the ... Church...
...Largo. A veteran recovers his self-respect fighting gangsters. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor and others do some fine work in Director John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...