Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other forms of domination are there to demoralize them--some rich group or figure to control these tenants' lives. The petty bourgeois landlord, played by James Young, is always present, always ready to evict those who hate him. So the question, for these tenants ultimately becomes one of self-respect; if they cannot rise out of the yard, they must learn to live without abandoning hope entirely...
Showing the burning plane is one thing, but photographing those devastated people is beyond the bounds of decency and respect...
...blacks while offering whites financial inducements to stay on. The proposals may be presented at a Rhodesian constitutional conference, either in London or somewhere in Africa, possibly in June. The U.S.-British joint plan differs from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's ill-fated program in one key respect: the makeup of an interim caretaker government will be tackled only after the question of a constitution for majority-ruled Zimbabwe (as blacks call Rhodesia) has been settled...
...values of the 1960s counterculture would remake America. Although his thesis was vastly overstated, those values are indeed becoming widespread. In 1974, Pollster Daniel Yankelovich reported that America's noncollege youth were adopting the counterculture values of sexual freedom and self-fulfillment, and were increasingly rejecting patriotism, respect for authority and material success. Last week the results of another Yankelovich poll indicated that this shift in values "seems to be reshaping the nature of the American family and its child-rearing practices...
...their children. For example, only 13% of all parents firmly believe that "people in authority know best," but 69% want to teach the principle to their young. Reports the study: "The children of the New Breed are being taught patriotism, the importance of saving, the need for hard work, respect for authority and that having sex outside marriage is morally wrong, all of which their parents no longer believe themselves." Some other findings...