Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pessimists, at least-is the disgruntled intellectual who has stayed at home because he has no other place to go. The crusading muckraker, the flamboyant expatriate, the dedicated brain-truster-all these convenient tags are gone. While the European intellectual goes about his traditional business and enjoys traditional respect, the American sometimes feels that he is the forgotten man. He seems to have little to say, and even when he does, he is supposed to be so intimidated that he dare...
This group-"the establishment"-runs the Commonwealth, and the people seem perfectly willing that it should do so. But not in the U.S. Says Co-Editor Irving Kristol of Encounter: "The Americans don't respect the intellectual the way he is respected in Britain. But then, they don't respect anyone, not even Charlie Wilson. The English, on the other hand, are a deferential society, as Bagehot said. They'll defer to dukes or earls or anyone with the right tie round his neck. So they defer to the intellectual because he has generally got the right...
Universities for Peace. "Many nations, though their cultures are ancient and rich, do not possess the resources to spread the needed education throughout their populations. But they can wisely use help that respects their traditions and ways." Proposed Ike: universities for peace, to be set up by U.S. universities and philanthropic foundations to help each nation "develop its human and natural resources. [But] in no respect should the purpose of these institutions be to transplant into new areas the attitudes, the forms, the procedures of America...
...wish [Mollet] success."One angry Socialist accused Mendes of "a low blow." Emotionally, the usually icy-calm Mollet defended him: "No! You don't have the right to say that," he cried. "He's sincere. He's a tortured man. His sentiments are worthy of respect...
...would be easy to dismiss i.e. as a product of sexual repression or sheer mysticism, simply by mentioning its many absurd assertions: "At Harvard, we have absolutely no emotional life.... Harvard does not cultivate a respect for the intellect... the students who are more or less artists or intellectuals and are busy thinking and painting are all stimied." (sic) But in the midst of the inanity and polemic, i.e. expresses forcefully generally felt undergraduate fears that creeping prestige-consciousness threatens their intellectual integrity. Although i.e.'s attempt to prove that the University is somehow responsible for human vanity seems unfounded...