Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...straight for Reader Chittenden: Cubists, such as Georges Braque, make geometrical designs based on the physical world; Surrealists, such as Salvador Dali, try to paint the peculiar vividness of dreams. In distinguishing loose screws from effective artists in both camps TIME will continue to use its own judgment, to respect that of honest authori-ties...
...does not seem to be bad. Police regulations to the contrary, the difference between fifty and sixty on the open road in daylight cannot be regarded as serious, and when students are picked up for clocking sixty under circumstances that clearly warrant a fast clip, it is only the respect for the law that suffers...
While Governor Hurley is right in calling on college students for safe driving, however, there is one request for which college students can call on him. That is courtesy and respect from police. All too often, when a student is stopped by a policeman, the constabulary takes a hostile attitude on the assumption that the college boy is a "kid who can afford to pay." Such a frame of mind can only lead to resentment from the student, who goes through with his brush with the law determined to "get away with it" next time, rather than cooperate...
Unlike another recent art historian, Hendrik Willem van Loon (TIME, Oct. 4), Critic Cheney has stuck to the visual arts and has in fact written about them, not confining himself to their "background."' Showing a desirable respect for his material, he has also illustrated his book with nearly 500 reproductions of works of art, rather than with sketches of his own. The Cheney history has positive virtues of completeness, modesty and readability, avoids alike the arrogance of parochial "moderns" and the bluster of hidebound conservatives...
...tended to emphasize research. The Faculty idea that pure intellectual training and research should be the most important elements in the making of teachers shows to what degree the spirit of research has permeated University minds and out-balanced that of teaching. The weakness of the School in this respect appears one particular proof that the University is flying the wrong flag of educational emphasis...