Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which have plagued the HUC. The HPC has no pretense of being a representative body. Its members aren't elected--they are appointed by house masters; and so the group includes a number of shrewd people who might never enter, much less win, a house committee election. They command respect and push HPC policy skillfully in individual meetings with Faculty members and Deans...
...Harvard, Rudenstine has won the respect of both protestors and Establishment by his spirit of rational, controlled activism. Last October, his timely intervention was credited with helping change the mood of protestors at the Dow demonstration. Grabbing a microphone while the crowd was still holding the Dow representative captive, Rudenstine urged the protestors to reject repressive tactics. Rudenstine's was the first of the "opposition speeches" that eventually convinced the crowd to release its hostage before the "police action and possible violence" Rudenstine warned against could begin...
...does not resign when the world goes bad; one resigns when the Peace Corps Administration in one's country of assignment is doing its utmost to make the world go bad-or at least to keep it that way. We had expected that the Peace Corps Administration would respect our opinions, but what we got when we suggested that we had been poorly assigned and that we knew a place where our talents could be better used, was an anxious mother-hen visit from the Assistant Peace Corps Director in Chile whose reaction to our situation was, "Maybe you aren...
...current government of South Vietnam is dishonest, filled with corruption, and has little respect from the people of South Vietnam," he charged, proposing immediate new elections...
...Council to win or hold the respect of those who are most concerned about the issues the Council was set up to discuss, SFAC will have to start discussing those issues...