Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter to Cardinal Cushing, President Pusey repeated Harvard's reluctance to have the Stadium used for professional athletics, but said that "we give our permission in the present instance out of respect for your position in the community and for your leadership of social and religious causes. We recognize the larger issue here of attempting in some measure to serve the community and to help the charities in which you and Mr. Lowell are interested...
...despite their blatant disregard for most of society's accepted mores and many of its laws-most notably those prohibiting the use of drugs-helps explain why so many people in authority, from cops to judges to ministers, tend to treat them gently and with a measure of respect. In the end it may be that the hippies have not so much dropped out of American society as given it something to think about...
...only be furthered if the rest of the U.S. observes their work a little warily, but with understanding. Princeton Professor Eric Goldman believes that p.r. can be an indispensable asset to U.S. society in reconciling the profit motive with the public interest. To the extent that p.r. men respect the intelligence of the public, the public will respect them, as helpers in the increasingly difficult struggle to unravel the complex situations and cryptic messages of modern life...
...strident New Leftists. The chances for widespread anti-Administration alienation are immeasurably increased for the simple reason that moderates this summer will have to face the shocking probability that the moderates this summer will have to face the shocking probability that the traditional political method of legal persuasion--with respect to Vietnam--has become outmoded...
...treatment works. The class regards him with a mixture of awe and fear, begins to call him "Sir." One of the girls (Judy Geeson) falls in love with him, and one of the boys challenges him to a boxing match. The boy loses, gaining Poitier the final measure of respect. By the time that Poitier receives a job offer from a Midlands factory, the once hostile class has become a bunch of friendly natives who present him with a pewter mug-to "Sir," with love. In grateful tears, Poitier rips up the letter from the factory and prepares...