Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practice of shipping in West Indies Negroes to work in his Southern orchards at less than the U.S. minimum wage, the white man no longer owned his slaves; he rented them. Some individual Negoes were able to earn positions of esteem in the Negro community and even gained respect in the white community, insofar as they became the liasons and chief deferrers to the whites. But nearly all Negroes remained in the economic lower classes...
...surprise of no one except rumormongers, Republican Clare Boothe Luce, onetime Connecticut Congresswoman and former U.S. Ambassador to Italy, declared: "Plainly there should be no question of my loyalty to the Republican Party and its distinguished candidates, Mr. Nixon and Mr. Lodge, for whom I have the greatest respect...
...biggest university in the country involves a lot more than mailing a budget to Sacramento. In no other state is there such hot competition among so many public campuses. In no other state is there such need for coordination among them. California has a good record in this respect. But ascetic, Pennsylvania-born Economist Kerr has made it better. This year's top education news in California is the "Master Plan"-an academic armistice largely fashioned by onetime Labor Mediator Kerr, who in 500 major labor negotiations developed the subtle skill that makes aides call him "the Machiavellian Quaker...
...will notice that I regard a trained professional actor with as much respect and seriousness as the world regards a surgeon, a tax lawyer or a bishop. If we are to a have really capable professional actors (there are only a few on display in this country at present), their training will have to be as disciplined, as rigorous and exclusive as that of other professions. This is why In believe the liberal arts curriculum can be dangerous for committed young actors: such programs are necessarily general, diffuse, non-vocational, directed more to the mind than to the special kind...
...back to Harvard and the Loeb Drama Center. You will see, I hope, how our reasoning has moved: enough instruction--extracurricular--to train the non-professional in his responsibilities, to help him to respect thoroughness, care, technical skill and intelligent planning, to show him how and why; but not enough to make him think of himself as a professional. He is not, and can not be professional until he works much longer and more concentratedly in his theatrical specialty than he will be able to do at Harvard, or for that matter at any other university, possibly excepting Carnegie Tech...