Word: respected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noted that in spite of greatly expand areas of learning it would continue to be possible to respect and learn something of the "unknown provinces" beyond one's individual field. He emphasized this especially in regard to differences between the sciences and the humanities...
...risk of being inconsistent, however, it should be said that Ashton's "experiments" are refreshing theatre. Not that he has approached success, for Chrysalis is very imperfect. But it is an effort toward a new theatre which deserves respect and, if for no other reason than its seriousness, it deserves an audience...
...services only from those who will recognize us as first-class citizens." Then, sounding a note reminiscent of Montgomery's Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Gomillion cautioned: "Please refrain from boasting, betting or accepting bribes. Soon the time will come when they [the whites] will have to respect us. They may hate our guts, but they will respect us. We can hold out longer than they. We can form our own businesses if necessary. We will continue as long as we have...
What is the reason for the crime wave? Some officials blame it on "mass-production" education, others on the fact that some of the new colleges and universities are really phony institutions, interested mainly in student fees. Whatever the cause, prewar respect for learning and authority has dwindled; a frightening number of young criminals offer no other explanation for their acts than that they were out "just for thrills." In the first four months of 1957, the number of students arrested topped 2,500. This spring police found that university students were the masterminds behind three large juvenile gangs...
...stories have all the professionalism of his later work-they are sentimental, comic, marvelously contrived and carry a sting of surprise at the end. Many turn on what was to be a constant theme for O. Henry: the vindication of a man who has seemingly forfeited all claim to respect...