Word: respecting
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...growth of such national feelings will also require the growth of individualism, for a sense of nationhood can probably be achieved only by people who respect themselves and their own worth. A generation ago, the great leader of India's Untouchables, B. R. Ambedkar, asked Gandhi: "How can I call this land my own homeland wherein we are treated worse than cats and dogs, wherein we cannot get water to drink?" Yet gradually, very gradually, Untouchables have begun to speak of India as their nation. And so it must be for all the other "untouchables" of Asia...
...mechanism for restraining armed conflict. In his words, "...we have achieved a substantially nonmilitary form of international politics, which has shown a remarkable capacity to deal with the problem of the power struggle--the one problem that has always been advanced as insoluble in any demilitarized system." Millis' respect for the system has probably been shaken by the turn of events in Vietnam. Writing in 1964, he saw accidental war as the chief threat posed by the arms race. Since it now seems that influential Western strategists may be seriously thinking of deliberately using these weapons, his tone, were...
...TIME refers to Princess Margaret's kinky-"meaning nonconformist"-stockings [March 19]. With all due respect for royalty, this is a bowdlerized version. "Kinky" is a postwar British colloquialism meaning "with or appealing to unconventional sexual tastes, especially fetishism." It is widely applied to articles of feminine attire in black leather-e.g., knee-or thigh-length boots-and, more recently, to fancy stockings...
...Decent Respect. The reaction came swiftly, particularly in Britain. The left-wing New Statesman accused the U.S. of raining "secret gases" on civilians, declared: "The Americans, like Hitler and Mussolini in Spain, are treating the hapless inhabitants of Viet Nam as a living laboratory in which to test their new weapons." A group of Labor M.P.s voiced "horror and indignation," demanded that Britain "disassociate" itself from U.S. policy in Viet Nam. In Washington, visiting British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart censured his hosts, acidly suggested that they "display what your Declaration of Independence called 'a decent respect for the opinions...
Howard Ziun, associate professor of Government at Boston University, told the crowd that "To a lot of people in Asia, President Johnson must seem like a global Governor Wallace." Noel Day, who ran for Congress last year against Rep. John McCormack, added "It is useless for Americans to respect non-violence in this country, unless they recognize it on an international scale...