Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...besides the resolution, administrators are also working out tentative guidelines for compliance with the law; in that respect they seem to be ahead of other Ivy League colleges, whose administrators this week echoed Harvard's criticism of the files law but seemed less sure how they will adapt...
...time does Brassai treat his sitters as objects of derision or freaks. His pimps and prostitutes are denizens of a bizarre twilight world but within this world they have dignity and command respect. Bijou stares at the camera forthrightly, without embarrassment or shame. When Brassai does choose to comment, it is most likely to be in the form of a juxtaposition of incongruous images--a derelict lying on the pavement under a huge advertisement for salad dressing or a close up of the large and powerful hind quarters of a horse cleaved by a gaily braided tail...
...Kief, hashish, and opium pipe," a single staunch friend--and a beginning--because she filters her stories' "myth" and "poem" out of her diary's spreading tide. To Macmillan Co.'s rebuff of her novels as esoteric Nin counters: "An adolescent culture shows the adolescent incapacity to admire, to respect or to evaluate...
Despite her humility it's difficult to ignore the tremendous respect that Davis commands from the millions who worked for her freedom and those who carry on her dialectical struggle now. Angela Davis is a remarkable woman--her autobiography attests to that--and it is no mere historical coincidence that a collective struggle of diverse groups united to oppose racism and political repression has sprung up as an outgrowth of her personal struggles and under her leadership...
...sizzling 91° heat barely wrinkled the Prince of Wales' crisp Royal Navy whites as he arrived in Fiji to celebrate the islands' 100th anniversary of becoming a British colony and the fourth birthday of its independence. Robed officials crouched in ritualistic gestures of respect, schoolchildren lined the roads and waved, and a considerate, perhaps mischievous chieftain gave Prince Charles a bowl of kava, a very potent local brew. Later, at a reception held in Suva, Fiji's capital, a less formally attired Charles witnessed at close range still more of the island's fundamental splendors...