Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From such models, from men who respect and try to follow daydreams about their own lives, society may learn again to make social daydreams, those models called Utopias. The utopianism of the 19th century, bold and fruitful as much of it was, tended to confuse dream and reality. When some calamitous realities of the 20th century exploded that kind of utopianism, people were frightened away from any social dreaming. But they need it to clarify their values in the real world, to define their ends. Says Riesman: "The fervently repeated American cold-war formula that the end does not justify...
...clearly in an exchange between Watkins and McCarthy about the role of the Senate investigator. Taking off from McCarthy's celebrated attack on Brigadier General Ralph Zwicker (when he said Zwicker was unfit to wear a general's uniform), Watkins asked McCarthy: "What is your view with respect to the right of Senators to lecture witnesses, or sort of pass judgment on them, whether they are guilty and all that sort of thing, in connection with these hearings?" Replied Joe: "I think it is part of the crossexamination. [A Senate investigator] can make comments...
...predicted, "will not be content to play second fiddle to the Soviet Union." Communist Chinese leaders seemed to have "great elasticity" compared to the "set pattern" of Russian thinking, Nye went on. "Soviet leaders when conferring with Malenkov seemed petrified with fear in his presence, rather than having respect...
...that bothers the patient but a basic emotional need for being mothered. However, this must be done with the greatest care: even when an adult is behaving most like a child, he resents any apparent slight to his "mature individuality." He seems to feel: "Care for me. But also respect...
...singer's tongue often falls flat on the printed page. Yet time and again the aging (61) pixy of the Waldorf Towers flashes out with a line of verse that might be Ogden Nash at his snippiest or T. S. Eliot at his youngest. In one respect, however, Lardner was clearly right. When Porter tries to be sentimental about love (which is perhaps half the time), his music may be convincing but his words sound as invincibly phony as Porfirio Rubirosa reading Emily Dickinson to a debutante...