Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since my survey, I have developed a theory to explain why students at this University don't venture too far east of Harvard Square. To begin with, I figure that they're conditioned to respect a busy attitude. In Harvard Square, especially on Saturday afternoons, a slew of strangers hustles around looking gravely purposeful. On the other side of Cambridge, people straggle here and there, no one pushes his neighbor along and the card players are plainly visible through the plate glass windows of the YMCA. Then, I suspect that students here are nervous about the possibility of getting lost...
...Kissinger as "the most interesting man in the Middle East." He looks rather like an indulgent schoolteacher, but has been a crack jet pilot and commander of Syria's air force. In negotiations, he at first seems to waffle and waver, yet even Kissinger has come to respect his exquisite sense of timing and his decisiveness in the crunch. Outwardly modest and self-effacing, inwardly tough, Assad today appears to be consolidating his control of Syria, a country that underwent no fewer than 21 coups or coup attempts after the French mandate ended in 1946. Last month Assad celebrated...
...playwright who was a P.O.W. in the U.S., has based his play. He asks an enormous imaginative effort from a European or U.S. audience: the moral issues of World War II still seem crystal clear to the countries that fought Hitler. Stereotypes about people therefore persist. Yet Dorst commands respect for Hamsun as a man who above everything else must be true to himself- whether he is right or wrong is to him irrelevant. With masterly compression, the novelist's years of trial are made into a resounding study of an extreme form of personal integrity that far transcends...
...most part is a non-joking Ali who is talking straight from his heart. He tells us what it was like growing up in a poor black family living in the slums of a big city, barely able to feed himself. He talks a lot about his respect for and devotion to his parents and family. His reminiscences of his childhood days in Sunday School and roaming the streets are emotional and effective...
...looks for a great legislator on the Supreme Court," Raoul Berger, Warren Fellow in American Legal History, said yesterday. Berger said that he preferred "a sound lawyer," and that he has respect for Stevens's legal experience...