Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these shores, but instead sparked the effort to recover a lost state of bliss, a pre-adolescent Eden that had never felt the dead hand of patriarchal restraint. What developed instead of a sense of cosmic fatalism (and its consequent strain of apocalyptic rebellion, one supposes) was an exaggerated respect for social manipulation, a penchant for forcing youth and growth into accepted social channels. Addams, Ben Lindsey, E. A. Ross, and John Wewey looked forward to conditioning the individual mind to a degree that far surpassed the plans for their European counterparts. "For the New Radicals, conflict itself, rather than...
...Kennedy learned that it is vital to our security that a President be a forceful and intelligent leader, the sole determiner of policy. The major lesson for the American people is that it is better to accept a momentary setback in prestige than risk a long-lasting loss of respect throughout the world. Kennedy best expressed this concept when he said, "What is prestige? Is it the shadow of power or the substance of power?" The Bay of Pigs was far from a total loss for the U.S., for it provided Kennedy with an insight into foreign affairs and decision...
...Most of the people you deal with respect the confidence, but once in a while an inexperienced man or a new one or a bitter partisan has to play a little politics. I think they keep it to a minimum, generally speaking, but one or two of them will do it-and boys will be boys...
...Gaze of Respect. In the last exile in Hawaii, the now toothless "Tiger of Korea" lived on the donations of the local Korean community, first in a seaside cottage on Oahu, then, after a severe stroke in 1962, in a Honolulu hospital. There he died last week at the age of 90. His body was flown back to Seoul on board a special U.S. Air Force transport. Wary of possible repercussions among groups still bitter at Rhee's memory, President Chung Hee Park prepared Korea's second highest honor, a "people's funeral," instead of the full...
...people of Seoul did not share Park's restraint. Fully 300,000 of them lined the streets to dab at their eyes or simply gaze in respect as the flower-bedecked hearse carried Rhee on his last trip to Pear Blossom House, his old residence...