Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cohen said the study will focus on Japan as an important contrast to other East Asian nations. Japan evolved as a prosperous country with respect for human rights while many East Asian nations did not, he added...
...survive such pas sages deserves attention. Those who keep hoping that McHale.will return to the exuberant comedy and middle-class Catholic characters of his first two novels, Principato and Farragan's Retreat, will again be disappointed. McHale seems stubbornly determined not to repeat ear lier successes. In that respect, at least, The Lady from Boston succeeds. The novel will vex those who expect their reading matter to carry the freight of coherent meaning. Those who do not mind the voyeuristic experience of being interested but not concerned will find it a lot easier to take McHale...
...glad that so many of you clearly did understand. You were willing to forego our ice cream for a cause. Together, you and we tried to hold the new owner to the assurances which got him the store: that he would respect the peculiarly democratic form of the place. We're grateful to you, and we're proud that we struggled, picketing 14 chilly weeks, before conceding that the old Steve's was gone for good. It was worth fighting...
...skill soon won him the respect of the players as well-and an income of about $80,000 a year. Says fellow American Armando Gonzalez: "His remate [backhand carom] is devastating, a knockout punch. There's no defense." An old Basque adversary, Jose Solaun, agrees: "Make a mistake against him and you're dead." Acknowledgment has sometimes been grudging, however. Jai-alai, long dominated by the Basques, is a clique-ridden world that does not suffer outsiders gladly. Solaun admits that his countrymen distance themselves from the handsome young American: "There is a resentment and coolness, a feeling...
...preference. Through sheer will and work, Byrd overcame poverty as well as charges that he was a racist and the Senate's Uriah Heep, the classic hypocrite in Dickens' David Copperfield. Now, after 25 years in Congress, Byrd is still not beloved by his colleagues, but he has their respect...