Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tente with the Soviet Union and improving relations with China, Ford's words seemed to represent an anachronistic, cold-war view of national security reminiscent of the 1950s. Complained Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho with considerable hyperbole: "[It is] tantamount to saying that we respect no law save the law of the jungle...
Guinier said in response to Bok's selections, however, that there was "no reason for the Afro Department to be treated as a second-class department" and urged Bok to treat Afro "with the respect and dignity with which he treats all other departments...
...mark after his hunched-over bearded grandfather tells him, "A man without land is a nobody." Motherless since the age of six, left to fend for himself by his taxi-cab driving father, ignored by his rich uncle, and taunted by his peers, Duddy determines to win the respect of his grandfather and the rest of his humble neighborhood, a Jewish ghetto in Montreal...
...antics, it is this very childishness that constricts the movie's moral comment. Duddy's endearing naivete includes such a lack of self-consciousness, such a lack of self-awareness, that his desires rule without any ethical restraints. Duddy is so wrapped up in his effort to win the respect of others that he loses any sense of respect for himself, and he is accordingly unable to distinguish right from wrong...
Duddy is not part of the immigrant generation, but to begin with he too had little more than fifty cents in his picket. And we feel the same respect for him as we do for those uprooted souls, forced throughout this century to flee Europe and to make their way in an alien and hostile world. The self-made man may be forced to step on his neighbor's toes, but his energy, resourcefulness, and perserverance remain a source of admiration for the Bernies of the world born with a free ticket to medical school. Duddy is young and unthinking...