Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With all respect to Reader LaMonte, there is still a reasonable doubt among scholars that the Canaanites were Arabs...
...with 30 Soviet colleagues. There were three days of dinners, concerts, ballets and pep-talks. With Babbittical zeal, Marshal Georgi Zhukov strove to show the delegates that theirs was the greatest little zone in all of Germany. Said he: ". . . Our zone will, by virtue of its own achievements . . . command respect and assume a position of leadership...
...thing has been as clear as daylight to me ever since I became convinced of the reality of the atomic bomb: namely, that a secret armament race in respect to this weapon must at all costs be avoided," Conant continued. "I am an enthusiastic supporter of the policy laid down in the first statement from the White House, and I hope the whole country will rally behind the administration in this matter...
...greatest musician today! Nobody else can write with such technical perfection, with such instrumentation. And all the time there is beautiful melody ! " Peter and the Wolves. Not all Boston's music-goers share Koussevitsky's enthusi asm for his fellow Russians - Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich - but they respect his judgment. Koussevitsky rates 39-year-old Shostakovich as a great-composer-to-be and 54-year-old Prokofiev as a great composer who has already arrived...
...wartime speeches. It begins with a broadcast made shortly after the Germans invaded Russia. It is devoted chiefly to explaining why Russia had signed a non-aggression pact with Germany and why the Red Army was not ready to repel the Nazis ("Of no little importance in this respect is the fact that fascist Germany suddenly and treacherously violated the Non-Aggression Pact she had concluded in 1939 with the U.S.S.R. . . . Naturally, our peace-loving country, not wishing to take the initiative of breaking the pact, could not resort to perfidy"). The last speech proclaims victory ("From now on over...