Word: respectfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreed that each new consultant in poetry to the Library, a post that has existed for 50 years and carries a one- or two-year term, would also bear the title of poet laureate. Matsunaga was understandably elated: "The poet laureate of the U.S. will raise the prestige and respect of the poet to the point where youngsters will aspire to become poets, just as politically minded youngsters aspire to the presidency...
...craft, and the political activist's need to convince himself that his ideology is the only truth. The tragedy of Alejandro Mayta is that the give-and-take of public affairs is too perplexing for his blind faith. Like the narrator, he cannot escape the comic ironies that respect no certitudes. When free as an Andean condor, Mayta is a dedicated Communist. Imprisoned, he is a revolutionary whose zeal leads to reforming the convicts' commissary and a modest career in capitalism...
...most bankers might concede some of those terms rather than see Mexico default, they are concerned that whatever they grant one country will be demanded by the others. Indeed, the ministers who convened at Punta del Este issued a communique demanding "significant changes in existing agreements, in particular with respect to interest rates...
...graduate of a Palo Alto, Calif., Fajardo says he has noticed at Madison Park a "much higher priority on the personal side of teaching, being able to gain the respect of students and maintain discipline...
...caricature of women, is for The Crimson to refuse them the message that whatever else may have changed since 1979--the first time The Crimson refused to participate in the demeaning "Women of the Ivies" project--Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates still think women, and their rights, deserve some respect. Ginger Mackay-Smith...