Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extent to which these conditions exist tends to vary among the different dining halls, depending on the number of students each one serves. Unquestionably the Union is the worst in every respect with Eliot, Kirkland, Lowell, Winthrop, and Leverett Houses, served by the College kitchen, second. Since all the food is purchased by one office, and the quality does not differ from place to place, the fault would appear to lie in the degree of efficiency in the preparation of the food...
Over & over, Taft taunted Stassen with the line: "He never says in what respect he is more liberal than I am." It was an apt point, but not the kind of phrase to set off cheers. And it dramatically illustrated the differences between the two men. Stassen did not argue the point-he coolly implied that everyone knew he was a liberal and that Taft was a conservative -if not a reactionary. He shook thousands of hands with warmth and enthusiasm, answered hecklers so quickly and with such a disarming appearance of candor that he almost always stirred applause...
...Tenn., gave the 2,500 physicians a gloomy going-away present. He reminded his hearers of Cicero's high opinion of physicians ("In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men"). But now, he said, physicians are losing the public's respect by commercialization-a tendency that has increased over the past 25 years...
Therefore, America's problem in this respect will always be to maintain a correct balance between the two extremes. To achieve this desirable equilibrium, however, the present Central Intelligence Agency must be given much more power and independence than it has at the present time. Congressional investigations which will bathe the whole system in the killing light of publicity must be avoided. Instead, the Intelligence services and the State Department must quietly and efficiently combine to clean up and rebuild the faculty intelligence agency, which is essentially their responsibility. Unless the United States can renovate its outdated Intelligence immediately, more...
...this day Toscanini thinks of Verdi with the same mixture of fear, awe, love and respect with which his own musicians now regard him. From Verdi, he got most of his ideas and ideals of conducting. Verdi, like most composers, was outspoken against conductors who felt they had to "interpret" (i.e., change) his music. Said he: "My manuscripts are clear enough, but I have practically never heard my works interpreted as I imagined them...