Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book, usually in Russian, Polish, Bulgarian, even Vietnamese. The house, a museum maintained by Cuba's National Council of Culture, was Ernest Hemingway's retreat just outside Havana. Of the nearly 18,000 yearly visitors who tramp through, over 70% are Russian. "The Russians have a great respect for Papa," said the caretaker, former Hemingway Servant Rene Villareal. "They can discuss all his books except one." Since it gives an unfavorable picture of the Communists in the Spanish Civil War, "the Russians are not acquainted with For Whom the Bell Tolls...
...ravenous sensualist of thought that Brecht had in mind, a man as avid for "a new idea as for an old wine." He nibbles fastidiously at a part that calls for gorging. This glutton of the mind is an intellectual mercenary. He will retract theories, integrity and self-respect so long as he is paid off with his life. Knowledge is an appetite for him and not an unstained banner of loyalty to scientific inquiry or a mandate to kill the belief in God. He is the typical Brechtian hero-heel, a seemingly intrepid liberator of mankind who is cringingly...
Community Treatment. The real way to change criminal behavior is to goad losers into earning the self-respect that they lack in the first place. Menninger would abolish today's moralistic "punishment" for the few, which simply deepens their hostility. Along with far swifter police work, he favors a therapeutic approach. Trials should mainly determine the facts of a crime, ignore the defense of "legal insanity" and bar the squabbling rival psychiatrists who now only serve to confuse the proceedings. Instead, judges before sentencing should be provided with psychiatric reports and (as in California) hand out only indeterminate sentences...
THIS DECISION is both professionally ethical and deeply moral, in that it implies a conviction for the purity of your working method, and an ultimate respect for the audience that finally affords everyone connected with any film the huge pay-off that justifies the slow process of shooting and cutting a dramatic narrative. But the film-maker's decision to put his cast through hell, perversely moral though it may be in the abstract, is supremely selfish. This cannot be divorced from the making of a first film any more than frame composition or cutting...
...argues, it has served to protect murderers, rapists and bagmen. It has worked to prevent police from getting the information they need to protect life and property. He indicts both legal scholars and the U.S. Supreme Court for turning the Fifth into "an ultimate article of faith in respect to which compromise is impossible...