Word: respected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the years Killian developed positive ideas about the relationship between science and national policy. He argued the need for a greater national respect for scientists and scientific research-"There has been avoid ance if not evasion of the intellectual tax that must be paid if we are to balance our intellectual budget"-and for a greater awareness by scientists of their national, social, human duty. "The specialist," he said, "must shun the view that lopsidedness is laudable. He must be politically and morally responsible." Most notably in the context of his new job, Killian expressed sharp skepticism about...
...sacred and the profane." At the same time, clothes also have the function of concealment. "There are certain acts, most honest in themselves because carried out by divine arrangement, which need nevertheless to be protected by a veil of shadow and hidden by reserved silence, so as to ensure respect for their great...
...Director David Lean's eye-filling The Bridge on the River Kwai, the story of a British officer (beautifully played by versatile Alec Guinness, ably supported by William Holden and Jack Hawkins) who builds a bridge for his Japanese captors, to restore his fellow prisoners' self-respect, then helps destroy it. ¶ Warner's Sayonara, an adaptation of James Michener's novel about two American veterans of the Korean war who marry Japanese girls. The Americans: Marlon Brando and Red Buttons. CJ ¶20th Century-Fox's Peyton Place -murder, suicide and assorted sex activities...
...economic circumstances. For it is the Prophet's admonition that a man must provide equal economic benefits for each of his wives. A young Malayan wife explained how she kept her husband from acquiring a second wife. Said she, giggling: "I just demand more of him, in every respect. Then I remind him that the Koran requires him to treat each wife equally...
...significant of renewed political strife. For one year after the Sinai campaign, Israel had cause for quiet satisfaction. The disapproval of the U.N., Israelis felt, had been lived down. But the swift efficiency of the assault had forced the Arabs to treat Israel's power with grudging new respect. It had reduced immeasurably the power and prestige of Egypt's Nasser...