Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...irrelevant to the understanding of human nature. Others would disagree...this book...is not an advocacy of one position or another in the nature/nurture controversy...If genes really turn out to be totally irrelevant to the determination of modern human behavior, if we are unique among animals in this respect, it is, at very least, still interesting to inquire about the rule to which we have so recently become the exception...
Fassbinder is mainly a humanitarian. He is interested in the banality, not the poverty, of the proletariat. His politics consist almost solely in enunciating that banality and its causes for a politically naive audience. In that respect, Mother Kusterstells a typical Fassbinder story. A man has gone berserk in a factory, killing his boss's son and then killing himself. The press exploits his family and distorts the picture of the man. His wife (Mother Kusters, played by Brigitte Mira), deserted by her children, seeks comfort where she can find it. First, with the Thalmanns, a couple of armchair communists...
...deciding the conflict-of-interest problems for Carter's appointees and advising the commutation of G. Gordon Liddy's Watergate sentence. A rapidly rising member of the Carter staff is Domestic Policy Assistant Stuart E. Eizenstat, 34. Although quiet and self-effacing, he has gained the respect of his colleagues for his grasp of complex issues. Carter too has taken notice. Said he, after the Administration's meetings on the energy program: "Stu has been very impressive in these meetings. He's really impressed me with his ideas and his understandings...
...courtroom, Judge Mario Lupi issued a final admonition: "To those of you who will now go free, I want to say this: remember that the feminine world, so proximately and dangerously attractive, is also the world of your mothers and sisters and must have all your respect. Therefore I never want to see you here again." Claudia herself was still in the hospital, but her attorneys expressed satisfaction with the verdict...
Despite worldwide respect for their country, Canadians have traditionally treated their nationality with a cynicism bordering on embarrassment. In a country whose people are unaccustomed to national pride, the separatists have a least for the moment seized the initiative. The "patriotic rhetoric and fervor" which Fraser mentioned presently belong to the Parti Quebecois. "This country will be lost if people aren't prepared to get just as tough as Levesque is," Fraser suggested...