Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Having had good opportunity to study American intellectualism, quasi intellectualism, pseudo intellectualism, and anti-intellectualism, I should like to add a qualifying remark to your most stimulating Essay [May 21]. A great deal of the "respect" you are talking about is paid not to the intellectuals but to the intellectual charlatans of a TV quiz-show type. The true intellectual, the quiet, original thinker who has the acumen and the courage of original thought, still receives only a trifle of the recognition paid to the pseudo intellectuals who often dominate the scene. If those criteria are applied, it becomes doubtful...
...peace and foes of freedom still move in the world," Johnson told his short, slim visitor by way of greeting. "But their chance to prevail is a much lesser chance now because of the response that was made in Korea by those United Nations which showed a decent respect for the values-as well as the opinions-of all mankind. We welcome this strength that your land offers now to the defense of freedom, not only in Korea but in Viet Nam as well...
...Americans want to be loved"; deeply accustomed at home to government by consent, the U.S. cannot quite visualize international leadership without consent. During the Age of Reason, when humanity at large was deemed capable of holding a collective view, the Declaration of Independence pledged a "decent respect to the opinions of mankind." At the time, this meant not merely listening but telling-giving the world a forthright, stirring statement of the American purpose...
...Other nations knowingly accept American techniques and, sometimes unwittingly, American values. The U.S. can and does argue its case with the force of freedom's reason. Yet U.S. institutions can also be baffling to international opinion, and U.S. policies are often inconsistent. In the spirit of a "decent respect to the opinions of mankind," the U.S. perhaps needs to announce its purposes more clearly and then act on them fearlessly. In influencing the minds of men, it is more important to state than to reply, to proclaim the truth than to refute accusations. The U.S. should not be afraid...
...little surprised to find himself completely caught up in it. What is absorbing is the shrewd and unobtrusive way Wood makes his assessment of a variety of men. As his reminiscence turns to the years of British withdrawal from the colony, he earns the reader's deepening respect by judging the Africans who are coming to power by the same standards. If there is a moral to the book, it is the mild one that the African politicians who shout for reform and whoop up riots are essentially the same sort of men as the British consuls they...