Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world leaders perceive America today, its past, its future, its virtues, its faults, and what they hope and expect from America in the years ahead." This enterprise, the letter noted, "is very much in the American tradition, going back to the Declaration of Independence, which invoked a 'decent respect for the opinion of mankind...
...candy and gum-so bad for the teeth-to the baby. She said to me, 'What can I do? He wants it.' Tahitians treat children as people who have legitimate wants and needs. None of this I-know-better-because-I'm-your-parent syndrome. I respect it. But I've learned not to try to go native mentally ... not to try to assume their mind frame. My first seven years as a child growing up in Illinois always gets in the way, and I meet myself coming around the other side of the island...
There is a certain irony in this final exploitation of the American Indian and his pride--making him into Art. But these photographs force the viewer to respect and admire these dead; perhaps they are also some posthumous Indian victory...
Although most of the men and women I know wouldn't draw up a list like the one that appeared in Good Housekeeping, they still have trouble (as I do) shrugging off some of the attitudes that make such women respect-worthy. And, as the shelves stocked with volumes titled "Women and ..." suggest, sex really does get in the way of dealing straightforwardly with people, even when the important criteria should be intelligence, job competence, ambition or simple sympathy...
...stigma that results when the married woman's usual duties are connected with money--both the prostitue and the maid are commonly labeled low-class creatures. In a pretty devious way, a predominant feminine image turns out not to mix with a yen for money and the power, respect and independence (perhaps the highest goals of American capitalist society) that go along with...