Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both big Joe Curran and his disaffected shipmates would probably be reelected. The Communists weren't after the skipper's stripes; they just wanted to wring some of the salt from his socks. Curran would keep the crew if they would show a little more respect for the Old Man. But until the beefs were squared away, N.M.U. would be a loose ship...
...save his neck, again & again gluttonously claimed responsibility: "I am responsible for German rearmament. . . . I always wanted bombers for bombing the U.S. . . . I personally gave the orders to bomb Warsaw, Rotterdam and Coventry." With furious gusto, he shifted blame from fellow defendants to himself. He spoke with unvarying respect of Adolf Hitler, cried: "I do not propose in any way to hide behind the Führer...
...scholars finally agreed that democracy can be measured by two "signs" and two "conditions." The signs: shared power and shared respect. The conditions: economic balance (poverty leads to despotism) and enlightenment. One flaw in Webster's abstract definitions: areas of despotism can exist in a democracy, and he doesn't say so. The film shows such areas of despotism within U.S. democracy as the Ku Klux Klan, a resort accepting only a "selected" (Christian) clientele...
...dissent, uncompromising James Marshall, Republican lawyer and former board president, called the majority decision "little less than condoning . . . bigotry. . . ." Said he: May Quinn should have been fired. The New York Herald Tribune seconded him: "So mild a rebuke for such an arrant affront to the cause of mutual self-respect constitutes a grave setback to the cause of tolerance in our public schools...
...expressed in the words 'Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.' There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery. ... It has a hundred fine names-Achilles' wrath and Coriolanus' grandeur, Revenge and Injured Merit and Self-Respect and Tragic Greatness and Proper Pride...