Word: respected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home, the New York Times saluted her for winning Italian "respect and gratitude"; the tough New York Daily News editorialized: "We're sorry to see her go." And from President Dwight Eisenhower, who said he would miss her reports, came congratulations for "a job superbly done...
...Harry Truman as chief of the Marshall Plan special mission to Italy in 1948, with the rank of minister, he too started off by stepping on Italian toes with some blunt talk about the government's land-reform plans. Before he left in 1950, Italy had come to respect him as much as he respected Italy...
Gamal Abdel Nasser, no longer talking about "a role wandering the Arab world looking for a hero," last week issued a conciliatory statement designed to show that he 1) is not a Russian pawn, 2) is willing to respect international law (though he did not mention the Suez Canal) and 3) has no ambitions to dominate an Arab empire. Excerpts...
With all due respect for the scholastic sensibilities of Dr. Amos Wilder, the William Belden Noble lecturer for 1956, his first two lectures seemed to me to be little more than a piling up, one on top of the other, of authors, theologians, illustrations and analogies.... He avoided the question of basic tensions and compatibilities between theology and modern literature by his tendency to give a chronicle, albeit concrete, of contemporary activities.... His only venturing statements were that first, the literary world in becoming more realistic is getting closer to faith in God, but he failed to show how. Secondly...
Lust for Life succeeds both as a presentation of Vincent Van Gogh's life and of his paintings. Successful portrayal of any great artist merits respect, but perhaps even additional praise is due that of Van Gogh, a man of unusual interest and complexity...