Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perhaps even to a faith in something outside man? Rutgers Sociologist Peter Berger suggests that what he calls the crisis of modernity requires some very new programs, a fresh start. Needed for this, he believes, is less concern for the abstraction of liberal ideology and a "renewal of respect for the concrete structures that give meaning to the life of the individual-family, church, neighborhood, ethnic group." Theoretically, at least, he believes that this should be possible "within the framework of the American creed, which has shown itself to be very probably the most flexible ideological framework in recent human...
...These guys are damned able reporters," says a former aide to Richard Nixon. "I have a high respect for them. But the tapestry they've woven...
...have begun to look at their female forebears in a different light. The history of Jewish immigration to this country has acquired a certain vogue, spurred on by a general mood of nostalgia and in particular by the movie Hester Street. And there seems to be a new respect for the elderly, aroused not only by the militancy of a group like the Gray Panthers, but also by the increasing popularity of oral history-a discipline that relies on the memories of old people. In short, it's no longer kosher to ridicule elderly Jewish women...
...Montville to discuss our mutual problems, Montville got mad at me for asking a series of questions pertaining to grievances. He then gave me a warning slip for "disrupting" a meeting. But if he can't tell the difference between questioning and "disrupting," that means he has no respect for the democratic rights of Harvard University employees...
Succeeding the pyrotechnic Pat Moynihan as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, patrician William Scranton described himself as an "enthusiastic supporter" of his predecessor, but "not the same kind of person." Last week, in his maiden appearance, Scranton proved the two alike in at least one respect. By the time a Security Council Middle East debate had ended, the man who was a Nixon troubleshooter in the Middle East in 1968 and put the word evenhanded into the lexicon of U.S. Arab-Israeli diplomacy, had, like Moynihan, provided surprises for everybody, including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...