Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James Garfield Randall, 68, most scholarly of the Lincoln biographers (Lincoln and the South; Lincoln the Liberal Statesman), a mild and modest man who could usually be found on Sunday evenings in his kitchen, making talk and scrambled eggs for his favorite students. From other historians Randall won respect, though not always agreement. A Lincolnian with Southern sympathies, he scorned the school that looked upon the Civil War as an "irrepressible conflict," chose to regard the war as the tragic error of an emotional and "blundering generation...
...stand for political government by the discussion of free men and by fundamental consent. Because of this respect for the individual, which we learn from Christ and practice in our church meeting, we stand for political and religious freedom, for economic justice, for racial equality and for equality of the sexes. But we stand not less for the responsibility of every individual for the good of any fellowship of which he is a member...
...Strings. Refusing to surrender it, Crowder raised a loud editorial cry of "suppression." Agreed the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "The tactics of dictatorship . . . What is being done to the Sentinel will be resented wherever there is a decent respect for freedom of speech and press." Flora union members and other citizens chipped in $3,000 to a "Save the Sentinel" fund. But Crowder needed $5,000 more...
...when he is only too happy to pardon all error, especially his own. His former son-in-law, Sir Roderick Shelley, strives to be an impartial judge, especially when it would cause him discomfort to take sides. Sir Roderick's second wife, Maria, who is fighting for respect in a household that is strongly under the influence of the first Lady Shelley's relatives, hopes to win it by chivvying her two children to an impossible peak of perfection. The children in turn, hope to reward her love by achieving the impossible, even by cheating their...
...child. Like Sophocles' Oedipus, struggling to gauge the future and discovering that it twists horribly back into his own past, the characters in Two Worlds march blindly to their fate, doomed from the start but always demanding, with the eloquence and dignity of Aeschylean heroes, their right to respect as well as humiliation. They always get plenty of both from Ivy Compton-Burnett...