Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Home, the Broadway adaptation of James Agee's novel, A Death in the Family, opened at the Belasco Theater the end of November, won mixed but generally favorable reviews. But the next day's box office gross was a leukemic $882. Commenting that "they killed us with respect," Producers Fred Coe and Arthur Cantor announced that All the Way would close after four performances...
...prosecution framed on such a doubtful basis should never have been initiated or allowed to proceed so far. For in America we still respect the dignity of the individual, and even an unsavory character is not to be imprisoned except on definite proof of specific crime...
...terms in which his argument is couched are even more startling than his conclusion: we are to "demand ... respect, not love" and "begin acting like a world power" and "quit groveling on our knees to inferior people who like to come to New York." One can only envision a medieval pope or perhaps a divine-right monarch employing such concepts. Most intriguing of all is that word "inferior"--which will of course sound marvelous when Reuters picks it up and reports it in Europe...
...last week, hands clenched, anger and sadness on her face. In 1958 she had paid her own fare to New York, happy at the opportunity to work and study in the U.S. Now a senior resident at the hospital (salary: $3,180), she had earned the full respect of her colleagues. Said the medical superintendent: '"Outstanding-a record such as you have never seen...
McCloskey will head the nine man committee which was created by the Faculty at its last meeting. He said yesterday that the report would probably not be "any deep empirical look at the matter, but an assembling of the arguments pro and con." In this respect he compared the proposed report to a set of lawyer's beliefs, rather than an attempted solution of the issues...