Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friend of the President remarked; "Jack Kennedy was extremely smart. He could grasp large things and detail very quickly. But he was not an intellectual. He had respect for intellectuals. The most important point, though, is that he knew how to use them well...
Those whose desire for vengeance overcomes their respect for the legal system share the guilt of Oswald's murderer. Their attitudes encouraged the killing by spreading contempt for orderly judicial procedure. As our society must allow a Lee Oswald his right to speak, so it should have guaranteed him his day in court...
Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government: It is a terrible tragedy for the country and for the world. He was a man cast in the heroic mold, who touched the nerve of comradeship and won the trust and respect of all who knew...
...Meatball Kennedy." Campus disenchantment with President Kennedy now spreads far and wide. At conservative Georgia Tech, the complaint is that "he's interfering with my personal life" through Big Government. At liberal Reed, where "he doesn't inspire respect as Stevenson did," the gripe is Kennedy's caution on the civil rights bill. At exuberant Wisconsin, "he's liked in a negative way," faulted for lack of political conviction. "We're sick of him," say dissidents at Jesuit Georgetown...
...landmarks in the history of the 20th century church. One, which faces bitter opposition from Italian and Spanish conservatives at the council, declares that every man has the right to worship as his conscience dictates, and that all men, as well as the state, are duty-bound to respect this right. Says U.S. Jesuit John Courtney Murray: "This hits right at the heart of the old Roman thesis that freedom of religion is only tolerated when Catholics are in the minority, and disappears when Catholics are in the majority...