Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During his 21 months as Washington's Ambassador to Ottawa, William Porter, 61, earned the respect of many Canadians as a concerned professional envoy. He traveled frequently through the country, mixed easily with its citizens, gave thoughtful and discreet talks about issues that jointly affect Canada and the U.S. But last week, as Porter left Ottawa to take up a new post as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau angrily told a cheering House of Commons that Porter had gone beyond "the acceptable bounds within which an ambassador should stay." In a singular diplomatic snub, ministers...
...smaller versions of adult clothes and, from the toddler stage on, were taught to obey their parents, pray long and hard to God-and fear his retribution. The father ruled the family, handing down orders to wife and children alike. The minister's words were given enormous respect. Church lasted many hours, not one, and was very much at the center of the family's life. Children were not coaxed, begged, bargained with; they were told and expected to respond immediately. Hell was believed to exist and to be full of properly suffering sinners. Even the most gentle...
...children. Their parents are not "child-centered"; their parents are frightened, vulnerable, grim and themselves hungry, jobless, constantly apprehensive. It is one thing to live in a world that altogether lacks good sanitation, electricity or good medical care, as did colonial Americans, but in compensation to feel the self-respect that goes with being an accepted and welcome member of a particular community. It is quite another thing to watch one's children suffer and live extremely marginal lives while other children have quite different, vastly better prospects...
...bill and its feet are webbed. But it also has fur and a diaphragm, the females suckle their young, and the males have foreskins--all of which are characteristic of mammals. The platypus was discovered in Australian backwaters by westerners in 1797, long after aborigines had cultivated a spiritual respect for the creature. When the first specimens were shipped to England, scientists tried to pry off the bill, because they were convinced it was a graft...
...range from analyses of educational financing to advice to young people who get in trouble. I serve from time to time as Party Platform Chairman and position paper draftsman. I am not the greatest political strategist who has ever come to a state capitol and my limitations in that respect are traceable in large part to an intellectual attitude. But I have a least a thought or two about that experience which may be valuable...