Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors report to me that the progress I am making toward a reasonable level of strength is normal and satisfactory. My future life must be carefully regulated to avoid excessive fatigue. My reasons for obedience to the medical authorities are not solely personal; I must obey them out of respect for the responsibilities I carry...
...maintaining a just and durable peace. It is necessary to be patient; it is necessary to be conciliatory; it is necessary to make our peace a vital force for justice and human welfare, so that all men will aspire to share that kind of peace. My views with respect to peace have been made known on many, many occasions, and there is no reason to think that they have altered because the article, like others dealing with complex subjects of foreign policy, inevitably tends to emphasize oversimplification and special emphasis...
...India "on our own terms"; he just did not want any more U.S. Government money. "Not only will most Americans welcome such a move, but it will increase our national prestige. Instead of being treated as 'ungrateful beggars,' we will be treated with more dignity and respect...
...over lunch to granite-faced TV Impresario Ed Sullivan. Said Watson: "To startle people, I tell them I was born in Painted Post. Actually, I was born in the next village, Campbell, N.Y.-but Painted Post conjures up images of redskins war-dancing, so people regard me with greater respect." Then, taking his tongue out of his cheek, Industrialist Watson explained why he was only nibbling at his roast beef: "Breakfast is my big meal. My mother always told us you had to start the day right, with plenty of warm food in your stomach." Hailing Dwight D. Eisenhower...
Allowing for much practical ellipsis and a few brazen disfigurations (it was Hector, not Paris, who killed Patroclus), the script by John Twist shows a commendable respect for the letter of the myth. It is the spirit that is Twisted. Homer's was a mythic drama in which gods and heroes, love and politics, war and religion moiled in the mortar of imagination. Helen of Troy is basically a story of hot pants in high places. The hero, accordingly, is not "godlike Hector" or "great Achilles" but "soft Paris," whom even Helen called a coward. As the part...