Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bluff, brusque, beefy Gilbert rated his own comedy highly, but had as little respect for Partner Arthur Sullivan's desire to write "solemn" music as he had for the poetical esthetes he pilloried in Patience. In fact, satirical Gilbert and solemn Sullivan collaborated best when they kept apart, exchanging their respective words and music chiefly by mail. But Sullivan, sentiment, and a first-rate business sense all combined to keep Gilbert's satirical aptitude in bounds...
...ideal of fullest possible participation. Cliques and bloes which thrive on low vote turnouts could more readily victimize the Councils. The use of the preferential ballot has been beneficial in preventing minority-backed candidates from finishing first. The present election procedure is by no means perfect in this respect, but it does mark departure from the antiquated idea that all political division is an evil...
Lindey asked; "Did it lower your standards of right or wrong with respect to sexual behavior...
...University of Geneva's Professor William E. Rappard pointed to Germany as the nation which had done most to make "her scholars the intellectual bodyguard of her warlike rulers. . . . [But] who, in this totalitarian age of ours, is without sin in this respect? .... Those who expect the university ... to turn out good citizens in the conventional sense of the term, successful men of affairs and staunch adherents to any prevalent religious, social, or political creed, will inevitably be led to limit the freedom of research and teaching...
...fault of the engine's induction system, as had been suspected, but was started by a short-circuited electric fitting. When this fitting was redesigned and a few other slight modifications made, the Connie, "already a fine airplane, became undoubtedly the most advanced airplane of its class . . . with respect to safety." The subsequent crash of a T.W.A. Constellation in Eire, killing 13, said he, was due to faulty maintenance of altimeters, not faulty design. Concluded Bill Burden: "The grounding action and resultant publicity have worked an undue-hardship on the Constellation...