Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Differences have sharpened within his own Labor Party this year; three Cabinet Ministers have resigned over policy disputes and Wilson's high-handed ways. Though no challenger loomed, many in Britain thought that Wilson would soon have to yield power to a leader who could command more respect. But this week, as Parliament recesses, Harold Wilson has snapped back sufficiently to ensure that he will be at the helm when the Labor Party holds its national conference in September...
Antlers in the Chair. During rare moments of inactivity in his Manhattan home-an elegantly eccentric converted loft in the garment district-Schneider sometimes lapses into a Dostoevskian depression at the thought that his generation and its values are passing. "We had a respect-for father and mother, for our teachers, for the universe," he muses. "From that came a certain discipline. That is what I miss." The self-indulgent style of some of the youngsters coming up in today's foundation-fed music world appalls him. "If they wear sunglasses, long hair and have dirty fingernails...
...also brought criminal charges against seven journalists and sentenced two others to jail-all for violating the purportedly liberalized law. To their chagrin, newsmen found that the government could hold them or their publications accountable for any breach of a vague and all-embracing clause that demands respect for truth, morality, public order and the family honor of all Spaniards...
Fragile and finely-balanced machines usually get unthinking respect from us poor humans, but who has not dreamed sometimes of impulsively jamming a crowbar into the glassy cool facade of a computer? Watching Peter Townshend furiously poke his guitar with a gleaming steel microphone stand was strangely uplifting. Perhaps this is the mystical turn-on that violence is said to give. One can reasonably hope that such exhibitions as the Who's will only serve as emotional releases and not create a taste for violence for its own sake...
...very often, as New York's Howard Leary observes, the policeman has reason to feel rankled: he is indeed what Leary calls "the convenient whipping boy" for many of society's ills. All things considered, it is almost a miracle that American cops, who receive little respect from anybody for perhaps the toughest job in the U.S., are as good as they are. "It is too easy to forget," says University of Chicago Sociologist Jerome Skolnick, "that police are only people," with the same frustrations and prejudices that others of similar backgrounds might have. "No matter what people call...