Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worse, if Solzhenitsyn cannot be legendary, he cannot be one of the people either. His struggle is too far from our everyday lives. His example, if you are responsive to it, is one to respect from a distance, not one you can emulate...
...placed in what has become an ever-tightening bind of bearing the lion's share of the University's real work and trying to finish his or her own research in the hope of landing a position as an academic journey man and gaining a measure of self-respect. Born out of administrative financial opportunism and disregard of the needs of the individuals invovled, the graduate school and teaching fellow programs have been established with financial security as a permanent feature...
...third-generation cattle and sheep man, I suppose I should be sheepish about admitting that I have never killed a coyote [Feb. 11]. We do not hate the coyote; we admire and respect him. However, our family operation has just about reached the end of its financial rope in our ability to sustain the ecological balance with the contribution we have made in ewes and lambs to the coyote. We plan to abandon raising sheep and join those who would have them become an endangered species in America...
Headline-Hunting. Such tones of respect for a kidnaper who was cruelly bargaining with the life of an innocent young woman were clearly the exception. Yet Cinque and his ilk were establishing themselves in the national consciousness as a new and distinct breed-a potentially dangerous achievement. "Cinque is getting away with his own delusions," says Ralph F. Salerno, top New York City investigator and expert on the Mafia. "If everyone said, 'You're a hood,' then he would appear for what...
...documented in the terrifying pages" of Gulag. Echoing one of Solzhenitsyn's recent appeals, the poet wrote: "In our timidity, let each of us make a choice whether to consciously remain a servant of falsehood or to cast off the lies and become an honest man worthy of respect by our children and our contemporaries...