Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professor of history at Manhattan's Finch College, who deplores the low self-esteem of the scholars of high degree. His remedy, proposed in the Educational Record: henceforth, all Ph.D.s should insist that they be addressed as "Doctor." Writes Dr. Seymour: "The title 'Doctor' commands special respect among laymen, and by failing to use it, the professor is casting away a ready means of placing the public in a respectful posture and consequently a more receptive mood...
...last period of Shakespeare's development yielded four great plays--Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest--none of which, unfortunately, often reaches the stage. These are not four separate plays; they really constitute a monumental tetralogy, in which respect, among others, they correspond to Beethoven's late quartets, Op. 130-133. Each of the two men filled his four works with many thematic and other interrelations, and each turned from the probable to the possible and even the implausible...
...uniformly claimed that to talk at all would be to risk selfincrimination. Accardo let a total of 172 questions pass without answer. Samples: Where were you born? Do you operate your affairs to get control of unions? Do you have any scruples against killing? Do you have any respect for your government? Such a performance made a "mockery" of the Fifth Amendment, snapped Chairman John McClellan, and he threatened the often-arrested but never-convicted Accardo with a charge of contempt of Congress...
...Bishop Theas struck hard at the exploiters of the Grotto's waters. His edict: "In no manner must it be commercialized. The Grotto water is foredestined to be drunk and to be washed in. It can be so used at Lourdes or at home, but always with religious respect...
...preservation of his self-respect, Morris evolved a theory of literary evolution. It wasn't a new one, but it served as a tranquilizer during those long introspective sessions over cold tea at the Bick. The theory went like this: that Harvard was an alien place, staffed with immobile minds, sealed with several centuries of strict tradition, garlanded with unalterable standards, and cast in a peculiarly rigid social structure. In short, the Cambridge strata were well-rutted and different. Morris as one of the eager young men from elsewhere appeared in such a society and became immediately, and noticeably, uncomfortable...