Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dinh Diem is no democrat by instinct; he remains aloof from the masses in the tradition of a mandarin who follows the ancient Confucian code of a divinely guided prince. "A sacred respect is due the person of the sovereign. He is the mediator between the people and heaven as he celebrates the national cult," he once wrote. A chain-smoking bachelor, he runs things his way, taking advice only from a few aides and his tight-knit family; his closest adviser is a brother who has an office in the palace. All departmental reports go to Diem's office...
Observed Germany's Professor Hans Rothfels: "May this publication contribute to that catharsis which after the catastrophe of the Third Reich is a requirement of our national self-respect...
...German allies affect the allied rights of access to Berlin, which are "inherent in the rights of the Western powers to be in Berlin." If those rights of access are interfered with, warned the U.S. note, then the Western Big Three have "the responsibility to make such dispositions with respect to the exercise of their access rights as they deem appropriate...
...author of the Daily Mirror's Cassandra column-was drafted by the Minister of Information. In a virulent attack broadcast by the BBC, Connor castigated Wodehouse as "an old playboy" who had "fallen on his knees and worshipped Hitler." Roared Connor: "It is a somber story of self-respect, honor and decency being pawned to the Nazis for the price of a soft bed in a luxury hotel...
Sculptor Zadkine confesses that as his admiration and respect for Van Gogh increased, so did the task of portraying him with fidelity. "You cannot go into abstraction when you do a personage; a person is always a document." Zadkine believes. Zadkine finally narrowed his search for the real Van Gogh down to two self-portraits, one in which Van Gogh resembled his mother, the other his father, and modeled them in clay. "When I had these two portraits I proceeded to create this being. He was an active man. Every morning he would go out, make three paintings, afterwards working...