Word: respected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China was losing what few friends it had left. From Japan to Ceylon, Asians angrily recalled the fine words of Red China's Premier Chou En-lai at the Bandung Conference in 1955, when he warmly embraced Nehru's Panch Shila (Five Principles) and specifically promised to respect "the rights of the people of all countries to choose freely a way of life as well as political and economic systems." India's press and public demanded that Nehru be at least as forthright in denouncing Red China as he was in denouncing Britain and France during...
...confiscation of grain and wool. The Reds applied pressure on the Dalai Lama to quiet his people. To an anxious crowd assembled in the Norbulingka gardens, the God-King said blandly: "If the Chinese Communists have come to Tibet to help us, it is most important that they should respect our social system, culture, customs and habits. If Chinese Communists do not understand the conditions and harm or injure our people, you should immediately report the facts to the government, and we can immediately ask that the guilty ones be sent back to China...
...will be Akihito's task-well begun with his marriage to Michiko-to find a new publie role for the royal family. Palace officials have lately been quizzing British guests at cocktail parties for advice on how to achieve that successful British blend of public affection and respect. The royal couple have been advised to show themselves especially fond of children and of the poor...
...what earned Frank Lloyd Wright the grudging but nearly universal respect of his fellow architects was his insistence that architecture must be an art. "What people want, what they desperately need," Wright said, "is some communication of the spirit, some quality of the soul." It was toward that aim that Wright's whole genius was directed. Almost uniquely among architects, he was able to develop his own particular vision in terms of one highly individualistic but consistent idiom of forms. His prodigious explorations of space and form marked and celebrated Frank Lloyd Wright and his own time on earth...
Accustomed to simply learning what the teacher says, the Freshman often does not accept intellectual responsibility in college, Monro said. The Dean claimed that large lecture courses are deceiving, in this respect, since they give the student the impression that he need do no more than digest the material in lectures or required reading...