Word: respecting
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...with most of the others. Arthur Friedman performed impeccably as Creon, assuredly and pompously reasoning his way out of the bursts of his King's anger and into the respect of the chorus. Robert Egan as Tiresias, the blind soothsayer, also allowed me to float by on the prose, mouthing what he could not see with such taste and skill that Yeats himself taunted the King Joanne Hamlin, who played Jocasta the Queen, adopted the precise style a bit too faithfully, speaking moderately, to be sure, but not quite forcefully enough for the part...
...explanation of it on the basis of a "Messianic invitation to expand and complement their civilizations" does indeed point out the nature of Hispanic expansion. But to promote this kind of crusading in the twentieth century reeks of neocolonialism, and shows Freyre's basic misunderstanding of and lack of respect for the indigenous cultures of Latin America, Africa and Asia. Some such cultures still exist, notably in Africa, where Lusotropicalism, Spanish-tropicalism or any other kind of Eurotropicalism has not completely extinguished or debased the non-European culture...
...grave fears about our future. I wasn't sure how successful I would be pulling the divergent factions of the nation together and trying to unite everybody in order to get the confidence of the people and secure the respect of the world...
Certificates for Christians. The Y goes out of its way to respect Jewish customs. Its restaurant is closed only one day a year, Yom Kippur, and bar mitzvahs are regularly reported in the monthly bulletin. Although the Moslem chef does not keep a kosher kitchen, bacon, purchased from a Jewish butcher, is served only on request. Orthodox rabbis are pleased that there are separate hours for men and women to use the building's swimming pool, which is the only one in Jerusalem that observes the rigid Halakah prohibition against mixed bathing...
Humility and Respect. As the first female descendant of Patriarch Adolph Ochs to attain such eminence, Granddaughter Ruth, now 43, accepted her new stewardship with both humility and respect for tradition. "The Chattanooga Times," she wrote in a statement for the editorial page, "continues under the direction of the same family that has guided its path since 1878. It will be my earnest endeavor that the Chattanooga Times shall serve this area in every way that a responsible newspaper can, mindful always that it shall 'give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of any party, sect...