Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saint-sinner dichotomy in your article "The News from Nassau" is grossly oversimplified and indiscriminate. "Among people who understand the meaning of academic freedom, Princeton's uncompromising attitude won added respect," you say; and futher: "Among those unaware of the issue's significance, the 'University's hands-off policy' was seriously detrimental...
...Respect & Contempt. Sickles' life sprawled, bounced and hopped over the incredible period between the Napoleonic Wars and World War I. He was born four years after Waterloo and died in the year World War I began. He was a high-spirited boy (or what would now be called a delinquent) who matriculated at one of New York's most cultivated households, that of Mozart Librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, where he learned a respect for languages and a contempt for bourgeois morality. He was to need both...
...University's reputation was both strengthened and weakened by the appearance of Alger Hiss. Among people who understand the meaning of academic freedom, Princeton's uncompromising attitude won added respect. Among those unaware of the issue's significance, the University's "hands-off policy" was seriously detrimental...
...Princeton University Trustees showed considerable sagacity in forcefully demonstrating that they respect undergraduates more than the dollars of a few, immoderate alumni...
...alleged domination by U.S. capital of Canadian industry and national resources . . . is being discussed emotionally," Stuart said. "Those who raise it do not appear to be seeking a solution but rather the creation of an issue [to arouse] a maximum of suspicion and rasp the pride and self-respect of any Canadian...