Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern respect for the monarch begins with the long reign of Queen Victoria. Her five daughters were brought up in a court peopled with carefully sifted members of a nobility as rigidly aloof as the sovereign herself, while Europe's courts abounded in eminently eligible princelings. In today's new era of democratized monarchy, the old Queen's great-great-granddaughter Margaret is blessed with no such protection...
...Saigon's Independence Palace, flanked by his Cabinet, a battery of generals, two Catholic bishops and two Buddhist prelates. Said the new President: "Democ racy is not a group of texts and laws . . . It is essentially a state of mind, a way of living with the utmost respect toward every human being, ourselves as well as our neighbors...
...French government, having done its considerable best to discredit and destroy Diem, now granted him its official recognition. So did Britain. He already had U.S. blessing and he quickly got U.S. diplomatic recognition. For Diem, the road to respect among the world's powers had been an uncharted, chuckholed, booby-trapped and lonely right of way, along which he had had to fight off the French, the Communists, obstreperous religious sects, pirate syndicates, and an indifferent and suspicious people. He had come a long way in 16 months...
...organizational core of the Athenaeum dissolved soon after its formation because there was no way of assuring annual leadership--during the Fall of '53 it was difficult to tell who was running what. The new parliament, organized with club support, seems strongest in this respect...
Although both America and Europe are based on respect for the dignity of the individual, they have different concepts of the dignity, Siegfried said. The whole American continent thinks that an individual's dignity comes from his freedom as a producer to reach a high standard of living while Europe thinks of dignity as his freedom as a thinker to criticize...