Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fault for not enunciating more clearly. The word I actually used was civility, which is much more important for universities today than stability. Civility becomes increasingly vital if university people-faculty, students and administration-are to discuss instead of demand, reason rather than shout, mutually respect rather than mutually recriminate, depend on ideas for persuasion rather than four-letter words, and confer with rather than confront each other...
Besides the pause, Nixon has brought a promise, and it may be enough for now. The old measuring rods of bills passed and billions appropriated cannot be used to calculate leadership in a time of spiritual rather than economic depression. His orderly and modest manner has won respect. Louis Harris finds that 61% of the public credit Nixon with "inspiring confidence personally in the White House." L.B.J.'s last reading was 33%. Nixon has not, as Communications Director Herb Klein claimed last week, "calmed the waters of America," but the President has set a new tone in much...
Morton retreated, allowing as how the National Committee would be glad to help publicize opposition views as well. Nixon insisted that he respects the views of ABM opponents and does not regard the issue as a partisan one. But he does not really want Morton to move away from open partisanship, will expect greater party solidarity than he is now getting on Safeguard. Despite Nixon's avowed respect for ABM dissenters, he confirmed a decision not to name Cornell Vice President Franklin Long, a noted chemist, to head the Na tional Science Foundation, because Long opposes...
...affected more by his classroom abilities than by his performance at cocktail parties, or department meetings. Fortunately, both students and Faculty are sometimes known to suppress their personal tastes in the interests of broader academic criteria. They may dislike a man for his dress or his politics and yet respect him for his scholarship. A system of checks like that now planned for Afro-American Studies should help protect prospective Faculty members against purely personal judgments from either quarter...
Faculty members and administrators stand in awe of men of action. They are very frightened of them, and they respect them, because they know all about the laws of Physics. One of the wonderful things about an undemocratic university like Harvard is that men of action will always get their way. And men of action, most of the time, are good men. They are good because they not been socialized. Socialized men will almost never act. They believe too much in the system that they have been taught. Socialized men are middle class dullards and right-wingers. They only commit...