Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, there is still a stigma attached to young boys' taking up ballet. A classroom of 30 students may include only one male. We are far behind Russia in this respect, but not in our quality. Your article, revealing the earning power of a top male dancer, will, I hope, coax more parents into sending their young sons to the dance barre...
...Pentagon plans to hold to its rulebook. The presence of homosexuals in the service, it argues, could impair recruitment; other young men might feel anxious about living in close quarters with them. In addition, Defense Department officials contend, homosexuals cannot command respect as officers or noncoms and are prey to blackmailers. Replies Matlovich, who had top-secret clearance in the 1960s while working as an electrician on Minutemen ICBM silos: "Who's going to blackmail...
...future of the Legislative Branch of Government because power was being increasingly concentrated in the presidency. Now, at a follow-up conference with nine Senators, ten Congressmen and 13 political scientists in Washington, TIME has found that the alarms have been quieted and that Congress has regained its self-respect. A report on the healthy new attitude and some qualifications, as expressed at the day-long meeting...
...VIEW OF HIMSELF. With all the respect I have for [Turkey's] Atatürk, he was living in his time, as my father was living in his time. Neither of them made land reform. But I have. Neither of them thought of workers participating in profits and being co-owners of factories. That is why I say we do not have to copy anybody, any ideology. We have enough brains to devise what is best for ourselves...
Raisuli, Sherif of the Berbers ("The blood of the prophets flows in me") kidnaps a beautiful American woman, Eden Pedecaris ("He is a brigand and a lout") and sweeps her off to his castle in the desert. President Theodore Roosevelt is outraged ("Arabian thief! I want respect!"), and the U.S. Government dispatches an ultimatum to the powers in Morocco: "Mrs. Pedecaris alive, or Raisuli dead." There follow fights, betrayals, skirmishes, duels, U.S. Marine action and a couple of full-fledged battles. Nothing much like it ever happened in history, but it makes for a lovely adventure...