Word: respectfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Both parties involved in the debate resorted, on alternate occasions, to attempts to disrupt the meeting. Those unhappy with the decision to overturn last week's action attempted to adjourn the meeting. Members remarked that other parts of the agenda meant nothing in the new context. Although I deeply respect many members of this faction, I believed that the designated agenda for the meeting should not have been ignored as a knee-jerk reaction to the passage of a resolution they opposed. While Frank Lockwood proposed his resolution concerning new undergraduate organizations because of the ROTC, the reaffirmation...
There is little that an open forum of representatives can do to prevent the undermining of order. Yet, faith in the ultimate success and legitimacy of the democratic system under which the council operates demands the respect of all concerned. Both representatives and activists violated this respect; nevertheless, interference with the democratic process is neither representative nor creative action. Michael Johnson '92 Council member
...neighborhood parents, and often nobody came. But he kept showing up. Michael Carrera, professor and prophet, understood that as a white man and an outsider he needed the parents' support if he wanted to come to their community to help their kids. "Involving parents is a show of respect," he declares. "It says they are valuable, their kids are valuable, their family is valuable." After a few months, families knew Carrera wasn't going away and that he was there to help. A few began to listen and, soon, their kids listened...
...chic, snooty cousin Elain (Mary Steenburgen). Two men, Carnelle's sometime lover Mac Sam (Scott Glenn) and Elain's wild brother Delmount (Tim Robbins), act as a geek chorus to the drama, but, typically in a Henley play, the real conflict is between young women clawing each other for respect, attention and love...
...passion they have for their history. In Lyons, Jacques Tournier, the descendant of a water carrier who was guillotined in 1793, recalls that his grandmother refused to walk past the place in the market where the execution machine stood. "Now I too avoid that spot out of respect for my ancestors," Tournier says. Jacques Delmas, a lawyer from Reims, has fonder feelings for the revolution. "One of my ancestors stormed the Bastille," he says, "and I feel both thrilled and proud to be French whenever I walk past the place where it once stood...