Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deal with a weak government or a weak leader, like Rabin? We had a talk before that, Ceauşescu and I, about Rabin, and both of us reached the consensus that he was weak. I like to deal with a strong government and a strong man. In this respect I have to mention that I would have preferred to deal with the old lady [Golda Meir]. She has guts! Really! Well, Ceauşescu told me what he discussed with Begin, and we reached the conclusion that the man is strong...
President Jimmy Carter, a President who considers the ethical and moral implications of his actions. Whether we approve or not, whether he succeeds or not, this makes him worthy of our respect...
...German family. In parallel studies of 1,500 American and German students, Rothman and Lichter discovered that radicals in both countries had similar family backgrounds: fathers they saw as stern and punitive, mothers as distant and cold. Says Lichter: "The essence of the relationship was reduced to respect for the parent because of his power, rather than love." At the same time, a whole generation of West German youth grew up in the dark about their fathers' wartime activities. A child did not ask: "What did you do in the war, Daddy?" Thus, in one sense, Germany produced...
...cool, straightforward woman, Gray won grudging respect even from her adversaries at Yale for her toughness in the face of fiscal adversity. She stood up to a protracted strike of college service workers and even-to save about $85,000 a year-closed the Yale Faculty Club...
...Lion, in which the amateur ventures lamblike among the wolves of professional sport-and then writes about how it feels to be a lamb chop-is unique to George Plimpton. Others have sedulously aped his ideas and style, but the author remains an original: a leaning tower of self-respect, plimping all the way to the showers...