Word: respected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...socially. It stands where dialect humor and realistic observation meet-or, more frequently, collide; where characters are a little more than exploited but a great deal less than explained. Atmospherically, the whole thing benefits from a certain warmheartedness; as a human being, Playwright Berg shows her characters a respect that she withholds from them as a writer. But what's worst about her as a writer-what makes her play first commonplace and then dull-is that...
...respect for the old, particularly in manners...
...Theologian. The intricate architecture of his thought explains why even Roman Catholic theologians respect Dr. Niebuhr. Both Catholics and Protestants may disagree with this or that aspect of his doctrine, or bypass or reject it as a whole. Few care to challenge...
...there are few who do not respect his questing intelligence or the spiritual inspiration which has infused old ortho doxy with the tremor of new life. Most would agree with the words of the late Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, when he met Reinhold Niebuhr for the first time: "At last I've met the troubler of my peace...
Isaiah Bowman kept Johns Hopkins' undergraduate program-two years of general education, then two years of study in one of foUr special "groups" (physical sciences, biological sciences, social sciences, the humanities). For him, every educated man had a private contract with society: "To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more ... is to be noble...