Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...target at which all manner of men are taking potshots, helter-skelter. I see inherent in all this a cancerous growth that could spread and stifle the true spirit of Americanism-which embodies constructive criticism, yes, but which also is based on sober consideration, mutual understanding and due respect for another person's judgment...
...tiny Albania, seizing any excuse to defy the Soviets, was gushing Stalin's praise. All over the country, monuments to the dead dictator were hung with garlands of flowers; Tirana newspapers published his picture and babbled their "love and profound respect for his teachings," Red China might also have been expected, to use the occasion to glorify Stalin's memory, but remembering the dictator's open distrust of his Asian comrades, Peking chose not to be hypocritical...
...England's Eton is to tutor England's Establishment, which is to say that a man had better respect the customs. Headmaster Robert Birley, who took over in 1949, seemed at times a bit rebellious. To the shock of Pop, the school club with old boys in high places, Birley opened Eton's doors to a few lads from the lower classes. Last year, when Birley was passed over for a knighthood, the London Sunday Telegraph blamed the "Pop lobby." This summer Birley will quit with a year yet to go on the usual 15-year tenure...
...called himself the "world's master artist." He wrote that he was the "Most Original-Most Prolific-Most Versatile," tbat he was, in fact, "UNIQUE." In one respect, Louis M. Eilshemius was. Though many artists have had their periods of vogue and obscurity, the ups and downs of Eilshemius have been the steepest...
...diplomatic and political reasons most of this active American participation has been subrosa in an attempt to maintain some kind of symbolic recognition of the 1954 Geneva Treaty which ended the French-Indochinese war. Actually the treaty which America never signed but did agree to respect has been violated almost from its inception. Temporarily dividing Vietnam along the 17th parallel, it stipulated that elections for reunification should be held in 1956. Before that time no more than 675 foreign military personnel were to be permitted in either half of the country. Largely because of American intransigence, the reunification elections never...