Word: respecting
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...lifted directly from a macabre novel by Abram Tertz. In a grim government building off Pushkin Square, two Russian plainclothesmen pounded away at their prisoner with 2½ hours of questions. Why, they asked, had the young logician from the Academy of Sciences been carrying a poster that read "Respect the Soviet Constitution"? Replied the prisoner: "Is it wrong to demand respect for the constitution?" Next question: "Are you directing your demand at the Soviet rulers?" Answer: "That is your suggestion. If you feel they need this advice, let them have...
Died. General Kodendera Subayya Thimayya, 59, Indian commander since last year of the U.N. peacekeeping force on Cyprus, who gained widespread respect for his supervision of the Panmunjom prisoner exchange after the Korean War, then rose to commander-in-chief of the Indian army, but quit in 1959 over the pro-Red policies of Defense Minister Krishna Menon, only to return following Menon's ouster and earn the Cyprus job, which he carried out so well that the U.N. Security Council had just voted to extend his stay by three months; of a heart attack; in Nicosia, Cyprus...
...book is a virtuoso demonstration of the skills that helped make Schlesinger a Pulitzer prizewinner at 28 (with The Age of Jackson) and a bestselling author (with all three volumes of his still incomplete The Age of Roosevelt) who is also held in high respect by his fellow historians. Those skills include an almost unique combination of encyclopedic knowledge, sharp reporter's eye, extraordinary facility and a literary style any novelist would be proud of. Schlesinger has no use for the notion of the historian as a scientist. To Schlesinger, the historian is one who "noses around in chaos...
Only one question matters to him, and he claims that those who criticize him never bother to ask it: "Is it true?" Schlesinger insists that it is, but he realizes that truth in some situations is not a satisfactory defense. In this respect, Schlesinger likes to quote Sir Walter Raleigh's comment in the preface to his History of the New World: "Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth." Sir Walter did not get his teeth kicked out-he got his head chopped off; and while...
...most people in Nevada deeply respect Newcomer's educational philosophy. "There isn't a kid in the world who isn't a genius or a near genius in some things, or a moron in others," he says. The schools, says Newcomer, must "find ways to analyze each child in terms of his uniqueness as a human being...