Word: respected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Mistress Matimba went shopping, the white ladies of the village turned their backs on her. A tailor refused to accept her husband's trousers for dry cleaning. When Patrick entered a bank without removing his hat, a teller ordered him out for failing to show the proper respect for white depositors...
Inside, they discovered rope, leg irons, and swords, as well as an assortment of juju charms bearing the warning that all men and women in the 14 villages around "must respect me and do whatever I say." It soon turned out that the chief was a member of a secret cult that inappropriately bears the name of Odozi Obodo, the "Committee of the Peacemakers...
...problem. "It is rather the disappearance of trust in the proposition that the mind and conscience are capable of making any genuine discriminations at all." Nor, as Dr. Miller sees it, is anti-intellectualism at the heart of the matter. "It is not that we do not have enough respect for other people called intellectuals; it is that we do not have enough respect for our own intellects...
...most important major theatrical undertaking now going on in this country is the American Shakespeare Festival and Academy at Stratford, Connecticut. At last, Shakespeare is leaving the printed page; the man who bequeathed us the largest canon of great plays is beginning to get the respect and service he deserves from both the theatrical profession and the American public at large...
...mayor of Belo Horizonte, Juscelino Kubitschek. The project: Pampulha, a new suburb for Belo Horizonte (pop. 600,000). Says Niemeyer: "Juscelino was a perfect client. He told me what he wanted and gave me complete artistic liberty to carry it out." Projecting Le Corbusier's ideas, Niemeyer combined respect for Brazil's climate, terrain and Latin tempo with his own love for the freeflow form. The curving, tiled lines of the restaurant, the soaring yacht club and casino, the many-arched Church of St. Francis were more sinuous and sensuous than any of the master's projects...