Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Weygand [Feb. 5] was a great interservices and inter-Allied chief. He sacrificed himself in 1940 when he accepted the post of commander-in-chief at a time when the battle was already lost. He was brutally dismissed in 1941 on Hitler's orders. He had won the respect and affection of all the French veterans. The decision of the government, denying him a funeral at Les Invalides, has had a disastrous effect on public opinion...
...rational criticism of the court, as of all courts, is not only healthy and to be commended but also to be continued. When criticism, however, not based on rational or reasonable bases becomes solely vitriolic and emotional, then all courts are bound to suffer in the consequent loss of respect, prestige and the confidence of citizens...
...Council and its subordinate Harvard Policy Committee are steps toward aristocratic government, but pitifully small ones. A few clubbies may win posts on the HUC, but only through the hit-or-miss democratic process. The HPC, while avowedly less democratic than its coordinate group, is still antiaristocratic. No self-respecting clubbie would want to join it. The HPC cannot do anything; it can only think. Neither body, so long as it ignores our natural leaders, can win the respect of the students. Both will have shorter lives than their predecessor...
...Committee into subcommittees for the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences. Over the present Committee, such sub-committees would have an important advantage in bargaining with a department for teaching time and money. They would know better the peculiarities and problems of the department and would command far more respect as professional equals...
...often inconceivable to students themselves that they could attempt to influence policy in the way that the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs tried to do. One of the sources of this attitude is probably the hierarchical, authoritarian nature of Indian society where respect for elders is a central value...