Word: respecter
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...well. He has written in many departments of TIME (starting in Foreign News in 1945), edited most of them, and been the launching editor for several new departments, including Essay. He became a senior editor in 1951 and an assistant managing editor in 1966. He has won wide respect among Time Inc. editors for freshness of phrase and idea, and a remarkable intellectual depth and versatility...
...viewpoint, was not that it demonstrated overwhelming strength or that it promised victory at the Chicago convention; it did neither. Rather, it demonstrated his survival power in hostile territory. Uncommitted party leaders in such large states as Illinois and Michigan, regardless of their personal feelings toward Kennedy, must respect a candidate who fights hard and pulls well in urban areas. Those who might have been tempted to come out soon for Humphrey now have an excuse to wait and see. Indiana also gave Kennedy a nudge in the right direction for this week's Nebraska primary. The New Yorker...
Constantly stressing the need for "more positive action and less anguished oratory," Rockefeller contrasted himself with Nixon: "He's been a legislator, and I've been an administrator. I have great respect for legislators. I'm fully aware of the importance of laws. But I think government has a tremendous role to play of a positive character. I think maybe I'm a bit more aggressive about it than Mr. Nixon...
Duke University students in Durham, N.C., recently demonstrated on behalf of the university's maintenance employees, most of them Negro, who struck for the right to bargain collectively. "To see these middleclass, Southern white kids treating semiliterate Negro maids and janitors with dignity and respect, without any condescension, is heartening," says Faculty Member Samuel Cook. "They're not only breaking the color barrier, but the class and educational barriers." In San Francisco, 150 Bay area physicians and health workers have organized as the Medical Committee for Human Rights to mediate between the Black Panthers, one of the more...
...Dogs, Old Tricks. Miller's latest play, The Price, is a problem drama calcified in the technique and mentality of the late 1930s. Underlying all of Miller's thought is the conviction that if society is changed, man is redemptively altered and restored to respect, purpose and value. But the catastrophic events of 20th century history have shattered the presumptions of the problem play. Man's ineradicable genius for evil has reduced the doctrine of social engineering to puny tinkering. Playwrights like Beckett, lonesco and Genet have abandoned admonitory Ibsenite finger-waving for a nerve-shattering look...