Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During precisely which weeks was it that you decided that you had, after many years of excellent journalism, a fund, of public respect which could now be spent in U.S.S.R. baiting, in the company of other savory persons who spend their time at it? During the '30s, when the Chinese Communists were the only group who persistently called for resistance to the Japanese invasion of northern China, or when Litvinoff was the only representative of a major power to speak for Ethiopia against Italy, or when the U.S.S.R. alone made an effort to defeat Franco in Spain? Or during...
Democratic Tic. The Bavarian revolution that succeeded World War I had its own puzzles. Schoenberner was not one of the literati who suddenly felt a new and urgent need to join the proletariat. Nor did he have much respect for the Democratic Party, whose platform, he thought, matched the names of two of its prominent leaders, Rindskopf and Kalbskopf (Oxhead and Calfshead). The general confusion was epitomized by a Munich professor who was called before a huge audience to give the real lowdown on the problems of German reconstruction. Owing to a nervous tic, this professor always broke into...
...Deep Respect." To A.P.'s Moscow Correspondent Eddy Gilmore, Stalin promptly wrote that he himself attached "great importance" to UNO. The nations of the world, he added, "desire peace and are endeavoring to secure peace"-though unnamed "political groups" were spreading war propaganda. Then he significantly linked "public opinion and the ruling circles of all States" as the two forces that can win the peace. It was the clearest recognition Stalin had ever given to the power of public opinion. Even Stalin, apparently, agreed with the signers of the Declaration of Independence in the necessity for a "decent respect...
...American Medical Association's Dr. Morris Fishbein added: "A nation which fought successfully against totalitarianism now proposes to enslave its medical profession . . . thus convert its physicians into clock-watching civil servants." If the bill passes, Dr. Fishbein prophesied direly: "The medical profession in Great Britain will lose the respect the rest of the world has always had for it, for it would be sure to result in deterioration of England's medical practice...
...convince the reader that a man of the narrator's intelligence could pursue Imogen for two years without suspecting her obvious neurosis. Censors and eager beavers will be satisfied by certain passages which cannot be quoted in a magazine; adult readers may not be. It is possible to respect Edmund Wilson's intention and attempt without feeling that he has succeeded in what he tried...