Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appreciate the fairness of your report on my movie-reviewing career [May 14]. I should like to clarify one point: my description of the "cowlike creature" in The Pumpkin Eater applied to the character and not to Anne Bancroft, an actress I respect...
Some observers feel that none of this is quite real; that pockets of anti-intellectualism remain, especially in the West and South, and that even when people respect the intellectual they do not necessarily accept his ideas. The fact is, however, that for some time now the U.S. has not been a place that intellectuals flee from, but a place they flee to. Britain's C. P. Snow has summed it up: "During the past 20 years, the U.S. has done something like 80% of the science and scholarship of the entire Western world." Chicago Economist George Stigler guesses...
...intellectual has probably never fared quite so badly as he sometimes thinks. From the Puritan Fathers through the flowering of New England, intellectuals of the "clerisy" made great contributions and earned respect, including Franklin, Jefferson, William James. At times, the U.S. was governed by Presidents of intellectual stature, including Taft and Wilson. But there was also the old pragmatic suspicion of the intellectual. America's egalitarian faith that every man is as good as his neighbor, and no better, led to distrust of the intellectual who, by claiming special knowledge, also seemed to claim special distinction...
Young Lyndon insisted upon respect from his pupils. He spanked disorderly boys, tongue-lashed the girls. He taught fifth, sixth and seventh grades, demanded that his classes greet him daily with a loyal refrain...
...such tactics, Lyndon earned the kids' respect-and their affection as well. "He was eager for all of us to learn," recalls Mrs. Amanda Garcia, now a clerk in a San Antonio store. "We were all just Mexicans in those days and Mexicans didn't mean much. I believe he really loved us as human beings." Adds Juan Gonzales, 50, a civil servant at Fort Sam Houston: "He respected the kids more than any other teacher we ever had." Says Manuel Sanchez, 48, a grocer: "He made us speak English. We did not like it at the time...