Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foregoing facts, it does appear that the marihuana problem is of social and not merely of private consequence. J.S. Mill to the contrary notwithstanding, there is no such thing as a vice which is purely private in its total aspect. He who over-indulges in any way with respect to drugs, with respect to food, to liquor, with respect to sensuality, alters the lives of others than himself and his private associates. He is unavailable for civic obligation which rests upon him. He bears a responsibility for the unavailability of social and medical services gravely needed by others...
...that score, you might wish to consider the fact that the trip was not taken at the initiative of any of the Faculty members, but at the President's personal invitation. That circumstance did not require any of us to change his mind, but it did dictate decent respect for the request that we honor the confidentiality of the interviews themselves. Equally important was the knowledge that unless security as to substance was guaranteed in advance, nothing of real interest was likely to be said down there -- and none of us wanted to make the trip without hope of learning...
...dean's reply, delivered late in May, was almost totally negative. Ford and Elder rejected the pay increase outright. They offered two new proposals on the junior-senior rate differential, both of which meant that the teaching fellows might lose as much as they would gain. Only with respect to work load measurement were the deans conciliatory, and even there they would accept only adjustments within the old system...
President Pusey commented, "It's an indication of great respect. The office is an honor to the Dean and to Harvard...
...second theory that I have labelled false is that you can run the nation from Washington. I believe that you cannot, at least with respect to the kind of social change liberals would generally seek to bring about. In the field of legislating social attitudes and practices, it is pretty clear that the old time Tories had something when they said, you can't change human nature, at least not with a bill signing ceremony in the Rose Garden...