Word: respected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With this team, Macmillan had to get Britain past the immediate crisis brought on by the blockage of the canal. He had to restore some self-respect to the Tory Party. In foreign policy, his first priority was to re-establish the old confidence between the U.S. and Britain. It was a task easier for Macmillan, who during the Suez crisis had described himself as "half American," than for Eden. Washington, which rebuffed all recent attempts of Eden...
...blame the other fellow is usually a sign of one's own weakness and lack of self-confidence. But while anti-Americanism is mainly a bad sign, it may also be a sign of something good in Britain. There is something patriotic in it. There is self-respect in it, too, and it's not entirely a bad thing if a lot of Britons think that Britain has been in the right. What must be done, in Macmillan's eyes, is to draw the poison out of this feeling, leaving the patriotism and the self-respect...
...Communism. Said Red China's Premier Chou Enlai: "I propose a toast to the . . . solidarity of the Socialist countries headed by the U.S.S.R." Replied Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka: "I toast the Polish Party's . . . attitude of international proletarian solidarity . . . based on principles of equality and mutual respect...
Qualities of Leadership. The U.S. Senate respects only those who respect it; no man has a deeper feeling for the Senate than Knowland. A party leader, by definition, must be a party man; Knowland has been a Republican from birth, and his attachment is to the party itself, not to any of its factions. "I consider myself," he says, putting first things first, "a member of the Republican team, and the President certainly would be the leader of that team...
...album, Landowska carefully explains to critics how she scaled her piano to the 18th century: "The pedals should be used, but with discretion, so that the harmonic and melodic texture will remain clear, crisp, light and transparent." In addition, "improvised ornamentation" is indispensable. "Those performances which we respect today for their literal devotion," says Landowska, "would have been called barbaric by Mozart's contemporaries, for it was in his art of ornamentation that the 18th century interpreter was judged...