Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They did not agree on a blueprint for action, but as former USIA Director Frank Shakespeare put it, "You could see ideas fermenting there, people considering things they would have considered heretical two or three years ago, asking what is the right thing to do with respect to the country and conservative principles." Said New York Senator James Buckley, who organized the meeting: "We want to be sure we are not left out of the 1976 election. There is the intention to be around and to be heard before somebody is nominated at the convention. We want to have...
...just may have been an ordinary week for a comic who has built his career around the plaint, "I don't get no respect." Shortly after Rodney Dangerfield taped 31 days of material for New York Telephone's Dial-A-Joke, 170,000 Manhattan phones went dead because of a fire in the company switching station. No matter, really, because the New York Daily News, which was to run advertisements and a phone number for the feature, was shut down by a strike. Dangerfield remained calmly pessimistic through it all. Said the cut-off comic to his nightclub...
...Superior General entered the library to find seated with the Pontiff Archbishop Giovanni Benelli, the No. 2 man at the Secretariat of State, where hostility to the Jesuits often runs high. The Pope was warm but firm. Arrupe's responsibility, he insisted, was to reimpose discipline and respect for tradition and persuade the increasingly egalitarian Jesuits not to change the structure of their order. Paul's message to the Jesuits: enough innovation is enough...
...social identities: In Erikson's thinking, each person works out his or her identity in relation to a group that is worthy of respect-a nation, class, tribe, or caste. In recent years, however, he has downgraded the value of these groups, referring to them as dangerous "pseudo species" that maintain their own uniqueness by dehumanizing others. Each of these groups enforces a "normality" which may, in fact, be sick...
...avid fisherman who now lives in the hills of Berkeley. California. Taj is most concerned about people's lack of concern for the land. "Nobody's paying any attention to the ecology...People have no respect for the land, and that's because they don't have any vested interest in it...Folk music was developed by people who wanted to maintain the tradition of the land because they had to work it all the time. You've got to have a song to work the land. That's why I think that sometimes certain people from Northern Europe...