Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Degree of Respect. Rowe described his long internment on his return to the U.S. en route to his home in McAllen, Texas. During the last 14 months, he lived in a wooden roofed cage deep in the forest ("You sometimes question whether it's built for an animal or a human"). During the day, he was allowed to venture only 125 feet away from his "hooch," and spent most of his time cutting firewood, setting traps and snares for mice, snakes and wild animals that would spice up his daily diet of rice and fish. He tried to keep...
...bits and pieces of news of domestic trouble in the U.S. "All this is designed to create within the prisoner of war a feeling of defeat -the fact that even within the United States the dissension, the disorder is growing to the point that there is a loss of respect for authority, that the entire structure within the United States is shaken and about to topple, that United States efforts throughout the world are crumbling. This is the type of thing that is conveyed to the prisoner." Yet he developed "a degree of respect" for his captors, "merely for their...
...behavior to which all "normal" people subscribe. The man oblivious to the rain is guilty not just of a trivial impropriety, but of the greater sin of social unpredictability. No one can guess with any assurance what ceremony he will next profane. No one can be sure of his respect of public order, without which society would regress to the jungle. Goffman is still exploring the patterns of behavior at social gatherings, which he believes have all the systematic qualities of a language. He is also at work on another book that will apply his own experience as a Twenty...
Whether or not Dean Ford holds these views without reservation, most radicals think he does. It is therefore hardly surprising that we on the left should begin to view all parliamentary procedures and all respect for the civil rights of Dow recruiters and under-graduate drill teams as hypocritical to begin with, and in the end reactionary. For in fact you have told me precious little if you tell me you are for the right to recruit and the right to "prepare for the military" and also against the Vietnamese...
...dean told Concerned Dad that if his son didn't know how to stay sober, drive safely, and respect girls, he should be brought home...