Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First. "A Touch of the Times" was financed on less that $2000, with a final cost per foot so low that Hollywood could well stand to take a lesson. And secondly, as an undergraduate organization, Ivy is doing much to increase respect nationally for student ability and professionalism. So far, Ivy's company at Harvard has been probably the most successful of college movie clubs...
...quartet played Debussy. Everybody wore evening clothes except Vishinsky, who showed up in a dark blue lounge suit. One of his aides apologized: "We worked so hard up to the last minute, the Minister had time only to change his shirt. We are always working, you know. In that respect we live on a plane different from that of you Westerners...
...Amerika's staff studies Russian newspapers and magazines, checks fan mail received by the embassy and samples reader opinion through State Department staffers in the U.S.S.R. Amerika's Russian readers think Peter Arno's school of humor vulgar and unfunny. Accustomed to treating Stalin & Co. with respect, they never laugh at jokes about U.S. Presidents and Senators. They prefer articles on science, the theater and industry, glimpses of U.S. home life. No. i on Amerika's hit parade: the life of Deanna Durbin...
...class of '49, FORTUNE found, is a mature one (average age: 24). Seven out of ten male seniors are veterans, and three out of ten are married. "But it is in a different respect that the character of '49 is really extraordinary. For '49 ... has turned its back on what its elders automatically assume is ... one of the most cherished prerogatives of youth. Forty-nine is taking no chances...
...years ago David Lilienthal had won the respect of the nation with a warm and firm defense of his liberal credo. Last week, again under fire and retreating in confusion, he lost some of that respect...