Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last October the first seven Filipino doctors and three Filipino nurses set out for South Viet Nam. Their average age was 25. The Filipinos first set up straw-hut clinics in eight new villages (pop. 95,000) that the refugees were creating out of the jungle. They won respect with their drugs and their dedication. Yet the best assets of the Filipinos were their own likable dispositions. "The people need laughter," the Filipinos decided, so they chipped in their savings and gave them parties and dances...
What these men have in common is a seemingly contradictory pair of characteristics: 1) advocacy of better treatment for Negroes and 2) the confidence and respect of a considerable number of their white neighbors, including many men and women who are not liberal at all. Each of these characteristics is necessary for the definition of a Southern liberal. But just how democratic are these Southern liberals? Granted they have openly criticized the South's callous treatment of the Negro, the fact remains that their efforts in behalf of the Negro have been limited by the separate but equal doctrine...
...mission of a university is the advancement of truth by teaching and research, Bundy said, and its "must be guided by a steady respect for scholarly excellence and total freedom of inquiry. This means that a university will make its appointments without regard to some of the things with which a security officer must naturally be concerned...
...this time the colonel unexpectedly helps him find his soul. Standing beside the priest, Lejeune says with great compassion: "All right. Go now. Don't crawl. Walk out to him." When Roget goes to the dying man, it is the beginning of his return to faith and self-respect...
Four years ago Hoffer published The True Believer, an eloquent analysis of the nature of modern mass movements that won critical respect and a considerable following of readers. His new book turns from social to strictly individual themes, and offers, in a series of aphorisms, the insights gained during a hard, roving life...