Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fellas-Senator Kennedy has already lost his driver's license. What do you want? Remember, as Mrs. Rose Kennedy said, "It's how one copes that counts, not what happens." With all due respect to that lady, let us remember how her youngest son did cope: He ran away and started a conspiracy of silence...
...propose new international regulations to keep the oceans clean. "Modern man seems to believe that he can get everything he needs from the corner drugstore," says the explorer. "He doesn't understand that everything has a source in the land or sea, and that he must respect those sources. If the indiscriminate pollution continues, we will be sawing off the branch we are sitting...
Unrecorded Death. In this respect, at least, a whale's death resembles a human's, and takes on something of the tragedy of the unheroic and unnoticed. In a remarkable passage reconstructing the death of a whale tangled in an underground cable off Ecuador, Dr. Scheffer writes: "His is an unrecorded death, for the cable does not break. The soft words flow around his grave; the messages of life and death, the loving words and stupid words, and pesos up and pesos down. . . . The luminescent beasts and the dark beasts and the beasts in between come...
...Respect. The Ripon Society, a group of Republican liberals, blames the Administration's "floundering" largely on SBA Administrator Hilary J. Sandoval Jr., an El Paso businessman appointed by Nixon to replace Democrat Howard Samuels, a far more aggressive leader. The society called for Sandoval's dismissal because "he no longer commands the respect of the black and white communities with whom he has to deal." SBA officials around the nation complain that they get no guidance from Washington. Walt McMurtry, executive director of Detroit's Inner-City Black Industrial Forum, voices a common complaint: "Sandoval just does...
...self-pity, as melodrama, never flags: any needle in any vein to keep the show alive. He is the supreme impresario, diverting his own eyes and the world's from himself to his creations. If he could put King Kong on stage he would. As director he has no respect for the conventional limits of stage and theater. All the world is a prop to him, and there is always the suspicion that when, as he does in Job, he brings a telephone booth or a Coke machine on stage, it is there more as part of his continuing practical...