Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, and the situation is too complex." Said a Miami science teacher: "It's time for Kennedy to sort out the bad eggs from that nest of eggheads he's brought to Washington and show the world we're tough. They'll respect us for it." Said a Florida banker: "Look, every time we really lay it on the line we've stopped the Communists. If we tell them they can't push us further and show them we mean it, we'd be all right. The President...
...fail to respect the directives of the government regarding the activities of priests...
None of this matters in the least. Too much respect for tradition never hurt a fairy tale; the important thing is the telling. Film Maker Foreman and Director J. Lee Thompson (Tiger Bay) send their Jacks up the beanstalk at double time, and keep them moving by setting off enough gunpowder to supply South America's politicians for a decade. The saboteurs, especially Quinn and Actress Pappas, are an agreeable lot of brigands, and if their destruction of the giant and their eventual escape down the beanstalk are thoroughly predictable, what perverse child would have it otherwise...
...Architect Rudofsky heaped scorn. The obsessive concern for time-and labor-saving devices in the kitchen, he said, has turned the U.S. from a "food culture to a dishwasher culture." As for clothes, "we are victims of the brassière erotic." said Rudofsky. "We have lost a religious respect for the dignity of the human body. We squeeze and distort the body, and our clothes are only shaping it." Man is no better prepared to solve the problems of shelter, said Rudofsky. "About a generation ago, great exertions were made to lift architecture above the level of pastiche...
...since 1956, General Electric plans to start making color-TV sets again in the fall. And in Chicago last week, squads of engineers were busily tooling up a production line for Zenith Radio Corp.'s new color set-a product that will be unique in at least one respect. Zenith's prices, company officials proudly claim, will start well above those of competing models now on the market...