Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, Viet Nam can hardly be held entirely responsible for the President's set-backs in the ephemeral but transcendently important area of public respect and support. Johnson could cultivate his consensus for only so long. Once he had to start assigning priorities, as every President eventually must, the politics of harmony had to give way to the politics of conflict and controversy...
...challenge of Iowa's three-term Democratic Governor Harold Hughes, 45, who announced his Senate candidacy last month, Hickenlooper has yet to pronounce a preference for a successor between two Republican contenders, State Senator David Stanley, 39, and former Representative James Bromwell, 47, but he has high respect for Hughes. "A powerful vote getter, a hard man to defeat," he said. Replied Hughes, after Hickenlooper's announcement: "It'll be a tough race no matter whom I face-because of the Republican traditions of the state...
...what form behavior took. What raises Coles's book far above the level of an interesting series of case studies is the warmth of tone, the freedom from specialist jargon and the understanding of differences. Although he is a strong supporter of civil rights, Coles also shows great respect for the traditions of the South...
Died. Otis Redding, 25, kingfish of soul music; when his light plane crashed into a lake near Madison, Wis. Otis wailed his dirt-raw blues to jazzed-up blasts of trumpets and trombones and cut loose a string of hits (Respect, Try a Little Tenderness) that took soul music out of the ghetto and into...
Henri Troyat, Russian-born novelist, biographer of Dostoevsky and Pushkin and member of the French Academy, is well aware of the dangers of attempting to "explain" Tolstoy. Instead of offering absolute answers, he approaches his immense task with unflagging respect and fascination for the conflicting variety of ideas and emotions that filled Tolstoy's 82 years. His exhaustive but never exhausting chronology provides a picture of Tolstoy the man, as complete as can be found in any one book. What gives the biography its great stature, however, is not so much its bulk as the masterly stance Troyat takes...