Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With all due respect to Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, may I take the liberty of amending his quote to "nothing disastrous appears lobe happening." Changes are happening at the blink of an eyelash, too quickly for the human mind to perceive...
...President, moreover, felt that he had a right to criticize Moscow because it had signed the 1975 Helsinki accord. That agreement, among other things, calls for respect for human rights and a freer exchange of ideas and information between East and West. But Brezhnev interprets Helsinki very selectively. In his interview, he ignores the accord's provisions dealing with human rights and greater freedom while stressing the section that gives each signatory the right "to choose and develop its political, social, economic and cultural systems...
...forgotten, however, that the Final Act is a document governing precisely international relations. None of its provisions gives any states the right to interfere in the domestic life of others, to meddle with other people's affairs. Moreover, the signatory states of the Final Act assumed an obligation to "respect each other's right freely to choose and develop its political, social, economic and cultural systems as well as its right to determine its laws and regulations...
...sister. Hers is an expression of contentment, his of protectiveness. Such depictions of sentimentality echoed the views of transcendentalists such as Emerson and Thoreau, who went beyond Locke's tabula rasa theory to proclaim that children were innately pure and good, corrupted only by an overbearing society. "Respect the child," wrote Emerson. "Be not too much his parent...
With all due respect to samovars, in the very middle of this provincial hole, I long for plumbing and freedom of thought...