Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well I've always had a deep respect and I mean that most sincerely...
...writer spews words because he has something to say. In this respect he is no different from anyone else. You can talk about laws, social structure, mores, psychology or history without turning to a writer for help, and since these subjects don't have to be expressed by a writer, Sartre concludes that they are not what a writer has to say. When you write about these subjects, you depend on certain technical words whose meaning within the frameword of history, let's say, has been agreed on. A special language has been devised to fit these disciplines...
Haskell, who is on leave from Rice this year to work at Yale, said yesterday that his respect for cliometrics and for Fogel "remain high," but added, "I can't help but be skeptical, because Fogel has not yet responded to his critics...
Like the caretaker of a freak that has been thrust into the limelight, what the administration wants for its W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research is some quiet respect...
...university is a neutral community of scholars where religion should not intrude. The statistics I've just cited as well as the statement by the former president of Dartmouth indicate that this belief in the neutrality of the university performed nonetheless the important function of preserving the self-respect of many Jewish academics...