Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overriding characteristic of the 20th century is the division of work and responsibility into minute parts. In this respect, government parallels industry and science. Every piece of information now involves scores, often thousands, of people. Less than a century ago, a decision could be locked in the breast of one man, e.g., in planning his Valley campaign, Stonewall Jackson withheld nearly all information even from his top subordinate, Major General Richard S. Ewell, who was heard to complain, "I tell you, sir, he's as crazy as a March hare. He has gone away; I don't know...
Harry Cain concluded his speech with an eloquent statement: "Any government, to deserve to survive, must deserve the respect of its citizenry. A government is under no compulsion to be less than severe in punishing crimes against the state, but that government is under every compulsion to extend consideration and just treatment to every citizen. He or she must be treated as what they actually are-the fiber and substance from which a free nation derives its strength and purpose." Only when the requirements of security and justice are met will the numbers Ten-Four-Fifty move...
...into the continent's skin of trees, and another century might have left the U.S. as bare and barren as a desert. From the time of the first settlers, Americans had operated on a theory of chop and run; they had none of the Western European's respect for the wealth of forests. The mythological hero, Paul Bunyan, was a logger who uprooted trees with his bare hands...
...Trafalgar and cautiously added: "In the first moments of such events, one is inclined to exaggerate conditions. It might therefore be better to wait for reports which are written in cold blood and come from safer sources." Such careful news coverage and restraint have earned the paper so much respect that when it does speak out forcefully, N.Z.Z. often gets what it wants, e.g., its insistent campaigning has given the Swiss press as much freedom as any in the world...
...grey poet. "To become adopted as a national poet," wrote young James, "it is not enough to discard everything in particular and to accept everything in general, to amass crudity upon crudity, to discharge the undigested contents of your blotting-book into the lap of the public. You must respect the public which you address; for it has taste, if you have not." To which Whitman, for once laconic, snorted: "Feathers...