Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole affair, wrote the New York Times, focused attention "on a shocking state of rottenness within the radio-television world and on the 'get-rich-quick' schemes through which so many people were corrupted and so many millions deceived. What has been revealed is deplorable in respect to the level of public morality both in the industry and in the individual...
...basic problem seems to be his iron egotism. Can't we have a manly, straightforward admission of error without all this hokum about his 'responsibilities to my fellow men'? . . . I could not care less whether Charlie Van Doren made $10 or $129,000. But dignity, self-respect, restraint and detachment are civilized values that we should cherish. Van Doren affronted those values as much (before the subcommittee) as he ever did on Twenty...
Streak of Respect. In 1938, after two years as president of Baltimore's Rustless Iron & Steel Co., followed by a year of semi-retired dabbling in various ventures, Symington was looking around restlessly for something to do. At the urging of Wall Street Investment Banker David Van Alstyne Jr., he agreed to go to the rescue of St. Louis' ailing Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co. (fans, small motors) in return for $24,000 a year, plus a stock-option deal. Emerson was deep in the red and battered by labor troubles, had barely managed to survive a bitter...
...Racquet Club grumbled bitterly about Symington's "sellout" to labor, and to this day some of them remain convinced that his romance with U.E.W. was a bit of cynical expediency, however well it may have worked for Emerson Electric. The accusation overlooks Symington's authentic streak of respect for labor, which stems from his grimy days as a chipper and moulder in his uncle's foundry. Over the years, Symington has won the warm respect and esteem of the Electrical Workers' high-voltage President James Carey. "I have extremely high regard for Stuart Symington," says Carey...
Squalling Grammarians. Traditional translations make much of Homer's epithets (Hera is "white-armed"; Odysseus generally "crafty"). Graves uses them sparingly, and sometimes ironically. The gods are treated with something less than respect; Zeus is a blowhard who hardly ever means what he says, and Hera, his wife, might be a garden-club president. When Zeus, who favors the Trojans, remarks that Hera protects the Greeks as if they were her own bastards, she replies pertly: "Revered Son of Cronus, what a thing to say!" Cartoonist Ronald Searle's illustrations wittily support Graves's wry treatment...