Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Demanding Respect. Though Sanchez made no secret about moving into an apartment of his own earlier this year, public outrage at his romance came only after false rumors began circulating that he planned to deprive the First Lady of her office and three secretaries. A San Juan women's club demanded that Sanchez resign and heatedly denounced his reported affront to the "dignity of Puerto Rican womanhood." Explained one clubwoman: "The closing of the office is, in fact, the excuse we are using. What we really must do is demand respect and consideration for Doña Conchita...
...Club Bedroom, Auchincloss illustrates the dreadful fate that awaits a poor working girl who marries into a top family, and who expects kith, kin or anyone else to respect her unspeakable class predicament. She loses her room at the woman's club. A Harvard-Yardley soap opera...
...Well, I think it's one one of the things we have to take a look at. I'm considering it, but I have not reached a conclusion with respect to that particular approach." Romney cannot shrug off a question. Instead, he fondles it a while, then tosses it back to the questioner...
...fringe benefits of a playwright's success is to have his works handled with a delicacy that, though born of respect, wreaks boredom. Sean O'Casey was anything but respected in his life-time and his country: the Irish press frequently denounced him, and a full-blown riot took place when The Plough and the Stars, his 1926 drama set against the rebellion of Easter 1916, opened at the Abbey Theatre. But in the United States, where O'Casey has long been championed by influential critics and directors, the controversy has grown remote. So remote that one of the most...
Berenson's Command. What was immediately apparent as Washingtonians filed past the most expensive painting in history was that their respect for its virtues had been distinctly enhanced by the beauty of its price tag, and that few among them who looked on the lady would be able, with the best of intentions, to admire her for herself alone. Washington's critics, however, welcomed the painting on esthetic rather than monetary grounds. "All in all," the Star's Frank Getlein sighed, "a lovely thing...