Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some Washington press observers believe that there is an unspoken rule among many reporters and editors to write about Ford with a respect that they do not feel. Perhaps so, but so far, that attitude may only add up to a kind of fairness to a man who has had barely 100 days to learn how to be a President...
...single and then as a remarried woman has dried out her tears, and this more confident Marianne at the end of the film is convincing enough in terms of the emotion. Liv Ullman, playing Marianne, makes those little smiles tell; by the end her eyes proclaim her self-respect. But, despite what she thinks, her sensibility is little changed. Her marriage by the conventions didn't work, and her new life is new convention based on socially certified licentiousness. Formed from the same society that molded her marriage, Marianne's new style of freedom can't redefine the roles...
This inability to gain the respect of a class stems from what blacks say they consider to be the failure of the whites to accept them on an equal intellectual level...
Whenever he can, Miller visits the mines, bridging the gap cultivated by his predecessors. "I want to know what's going on," he says. "I respect any man's opinion. I was a rank and filer, and I still am." His is a new-found confidence, and he wants to make it contagious. "I felt for many years because I had no formal education -this is a feeling that is consistent with most coal miners-that we miners were handicapped," he says. "We were not very vocal about the problems...
Humane Paradigm. Arafat tried to distinguish his respect for the Jewish faith from his hatred of Zionism and appealed to his Jewish listeners to abandon the cause of Israel. "Let us remember that the Jews of Europe and the U.S. have been known to lead the struggles for secularism and the separation of church and state; they have also been known to fight against discrimination on religious grounds. How do they then refuse this humane paradigm for the Holy Land...