Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were not getting enough personal details about Ike's vacation. Said Hoover: "Thirty years ago we used to believe that there were only two occasions in which the American people have regard for the privacy of the President-in prayer and fishing . . . The press no longer has any respect for the privacy of the President in his fishing. That's one of the degenerations of the last 30 years." Asked a reporter: "Are you blaming this degeneration on the Democrats?"Hoover answered: "I'm not doing any politicking at the moment." When the fishing trip was over...
...Another ancestor was the Landgrave Thomas Smith, who took his title from the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which Philosopher John Locke wrote when he was secretary to the lords proprietors. Still another ancestor was fiery U.S. Senator R. Barnwell Rhett, "the father of secession," who refused, out of respect for his religion and his marksmanship, to fight duels; no one suspected Barnwell Rhett of cowardice when he said he was averse to killing a fellow...
...this respect, the U.S. could learn from the artful Chou Enlai. who has a talent for making minimal requests of countries he cannot order around. The only request the Communists make of the French, for instance, is not to rearm Germany; they ask the Indians only to be in favor of "Asia for the Asians." Implicit in these small and easy commitments is all that the Communists presently want of France and India: to stand aside. Too often U.S. requests to young and sensitive nations, or to old and proud nations, have been crowded with demands and pledges that have...
This year and next, when the returns from the Italians' big gamble with multimillion-dollar productions come rolling in, will tell the tale. But no matter what the climax, it is sure, in a vital respect, to be an anticlimax. The finest hour of the Italian cinema was rung in with Open City (1946) and tolled out with Umberto D (1952), and every man of talent in the Italian movie industry knows it. Few are willing to give up the prospect of prosperity, but most are sad and just a little ashamed to see their pictures become more...
Year by year the great man's relatives and marshals were appointed to kingdoms and principalities* all over the Continent-but always as mouthpieces of the supreme "N." "Your letters," Napoleon tells his brother Louis, King of Holland, "are always talking of obedience and of respect; but [these] consist in not going so fast in such important matters without my advice." Marshal Soult, Duke of Dalmatia, is asked: "How could a man of your ability have supposed that I should ever allow you to exercise any authority not derived from me? Your action shows . . . a failure to realize...