Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would rather be called that than the opposite. If you look back at it, the term derived out of a position with respect to the Viet Nam War. I was a dove on Viet Nam, no question about...
Even those blacks who know, respect and stand by Young, furthermore, have proved less than inspired by his new position. Young's friend and fellow civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, appearing on Public Television's McNeil/Lehrer report the night after Young's nomination, said Young was too principled and conscientious to deserve the "sell-out" position Jackson saw lying in store for him--that of a front man without a serious voice in policy planning who would be used because of his color to sell the Third World a foreign policy largely unchanged from those of the past two administrations...
...also arguable whether Young will actually have much say in making U.S. policy decisions concerning southern Africa. Although much has been made of their mutual respect, no signs have appeared that Carter plans to include Young in his inner policymaking circle (beyond a special office and secretary Young has in the State Department building in Washington). Yet, even if he is denied the influence he now says he expects to have, Young possesses another trait, also honed during his years in the civil rights movement, that may prove to be significant...
...Mary Tyler Moore Show changed the nature of Saturday nights; it even became fashionable to spend them at home. The show turned the situation comedy into something like an art form-a slight art form perhaps, but a highly polished one. MTM was the sitcom that was intellectually respectable. The writing, acting and directing on MTM have been the best ever displayed in TV comedy. Owing much to Moore, who always set a tone of perfectionism, the show has been technically superb and beautifully paced. Former CBS Executive James Aubrey used to say, "The American public is something...
...could accept no additional women because Harvard's job was to train leaders, and guess who that didn't mean." F. Skiddy von Stade, dean of Freshmen, later said of women in the 1969 strike, "they were so insolent, the worst of the bunch. At least you have to respect the boys a little since they have something riding on this. The thing is Vietnam for many of them, and if they get chucked out for this their chances of being sent there are far greater. But if the girls get heaved, they'll just go off to secretarial school...