Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...following at V.F.W. posts across the country. Lancaster is convinced that President Marsh is taking the country to Hell. His aide, Kirk Douglas, does not like the disarmament treaty any more than General Lancaster. But when he discovers that Lancaster is planning a military coup, he is caught between respect for military discipline and his belief in the principles of the Constitution. The principles of the Constitution win out: Douglas tells President March what Lancaster is planning...
...mean to discount in any way the value of individual efforts in research or teaching that are being made with respect to Latin America at several of Harvard's graduate school and at other institutions such as Columbia University, Stanford University, the New York University School of Law, the American Institute of Foreign Trade at Phoenix, Southern Methodist University, Tulane University Law School, and the University of the Pacific at Stockton, California. I appreciate, too, that the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Interamerican Bar Association, the Institute of International Education and other organizations support many worthwhile activities, scholars...
...steady and persistent man, with a shrewd understanding of people. Wilkins knows the facts of political life; if his placid exterior disturbs those who believe his cause demands anger, it is indispensable when, says, a conservative legislator must be cajoled into supporting a civil rights bill. Wilkins inspires respect and profound confidence, not emotional faith. After a few hours with him, one feels certain that Wilkins and men like him will be responsible for important gains in civil rights long after the summer patriots have wearied of their slogans...
...better schools," cried the leaders of New York City's recent school boycott. Nonsense, reported President John H. Fischer of Columbia University's Teachers College, in a speech last week before the American Association of School Administrators. Boycott promoters, Fischer declared, undermine "the child's respect for the very school which is his surest hope of attaining equal opportunity." Said he: "With friends like this, neither education nor the civil rights movement needs to look for enemies...
...event, during a Goffstown, N.H., appearance, Rocky was asked: "Is Lodge to blame for Viet Nam in any respect? Has he done us any good?" The reply: "When a man is in foreign service as ambassador he has to carry out instructions from the Secretary of State and the President. He is not in a position to speak independently, except when he resigns. So he is either a part of what is going on, or, if he does not want to be part of it, his only alternative is to resign and to come back and say what is wrong...