Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official duty, but has handled both with verve, resolve and good taste. During nearly 17 months in the White House, she has gone far toward recreating and refurbishing the serene, classically elegant residence that Jefferson intended it to be. She has helped, too, to awaken the sometimes dormant American respect for excellence, be it in food or poetry, décor or dance...
...Montreux on the shores of Lake Geneva, Novelist Vladimir Nabokov, 63, sent his answer in the form of a letter to the London Times. "In the same list," said the strongly antileftist Russian émigré who left his homeland in 1919, "I find several writers whom I respect but also some others-such as Ilya Ehrenburg, Bertrand Russell and J.P. Sartre-with whom I would not consent to participate in any festival or conference whatsoever." Besides, said he, "I do not believe in abstract discussions on the novel...
...although Hughes is already costing him campaign workers, funds and liberal support, and will cost him votes if and when he confronts a Republican in November, McCormack evinces a personal sympathy and respect for the Harvard professor that is totally absent when he discusses Ted Kennedy. "I don't go as far as Stuart Hughes," he reiterates in a tone that encompasses apology, relief and savvy, "but against a Republican we'll be pretty close to the same pole...
Nothing annoys Christie more than the suggestion that Glyndebourne is a plaything of the rich. "I ask people to dress," says he, "because they should go through the trouble to do it. We take trouble. So should they. It brings mutual respect. I don't give a damn about snobbishness...
Lincoln's Birthday to argue that the Great Emancipator never meant to free the slaves ("The black men for whom he felt compassion but not respect have won the victory that Lincoln intended as a safeguard for the white man's civilization...