Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ironic that those who would uphold civil liberties in America must rally to the defense of individuals and groups who cannot command their political respect. The CRIMSON, in its inquiries into the present case, has found little proof that the members of Advance are intellectually or ideologically independent. And yet it is with full force that we condemn the technique of prosecution under the McCarran...
...final analysis, the argument for American and African unity rests on the undemonstrable--and perhaps slightly paranoid--act of pure faith which asserts a priori that whites and Negroes per se cannot understand one another nor collaborate in an atmosphere of equality and mutual respect. One thing is certain: the surest way to prevent equality is to convince everyone of such a thesis. Paranoid presuppositions rapidly become self-fulfilling prophecies. The ideal of equality is not refuted, it is merely rendered historically impossible by ideologies which generate racial distrust...
Jung notes that nothing is a clearer symbol of peevish authority than a customs inspector-but that is only half the dream. Readers who respect the power of a pun are free to ponder which of his customs Jung didn't want Freud inspecting, and as far as Jung's critics are concerned, that is the heart of the matter. For how else account for a man whose method in science was often to find enlightenment in a dream, pronounce the dream a hypothesis, then dream it ten times over again, and announce the establishment of a theory...
Several years after the publication of the Principles, Gertrude Stein '97 arrived at Radcliffe. She elected to concentrate--if such a pedestrian word is proper--in psychology. Like Alice Toklas, James had great respect for her intelligence; he publicly acclaimed her the most outstanding woman student of his long teaching career...
...best claim that a college education can possibly make on your respect, the best thing it can aspire to accomplish for you is this: that it should help you to know a good man when you see him. William James...