Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...herself to other political causes. She was "less interested in promoting women's rights than humanities, believing mankind's necessarily preceded women's," Barry writes. Sand herself wrote, "Women cry out against slavery; let them wait until mankind is free, for slavery cannot give birth to freedom." In this respect Sand, as portrayed by Barry, had a narrow view of feminism. Had she lived today, she may well have identified with the Radical feminists, merging her politics with feminism, instead of subordinating the latter...
...beans, the Rodney Dangerfield of the legume family. They just don't get no respect. Their appearance at the dinner table inevitably results in guilty faces and bad poetry. And then there's the wise guy who always brings up Alex Karras's role in Blazing Saddles...
...freed [Jan. 24], France shows again that it is merely a puppet in the hands of Arab dictators. For the right price of oil, justice can be tossed aside. France should be in mourning -not for the dead Israelis but for the death of justice, liberty and respect...
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi startled the world last month by relaxing the iron rule she had maintained under a state of emergency declared in mid-1975: she ended press censorship, freed political prisoners and scheduled parliamentary elections for next month. Whatever her political motives, her timing in one respect was sound. The Indian economy, described by a U.S. expert as "a great lumbering elephant," has turned so frisky that Mrs. Gandhi need have no fear of the economy becoming an issue in a free election. As she said in announcing the vote, "Anyone can see that today the nation...
Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clear-cut preference for those societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency...