Word: respecting
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FORGET the democratic processes, the judicial system and the talent for organization that have long been the distinctive marks of the U.S. Forget, too, the affluence (vast, if still not general enough) and the fundamental respect for law by most Americans. Remember, instead...
...possessing 70 tons of weapons and ammunition, including a 37-mm. cannon. On the national day of mourning for Robert F. Kennedy, promoters of a Davenport, Iowa, pistol-shooting match decided to go ahead with the event but to observe a moment of silence after each volley, out of respect to the assassinated Senator...
...many of this year's college and university commencements were surrounded by a palpable atmosphere of tension. Conscious of their newfound power, students eyed their speakers with more than the usual contempt for cliché and platitude. Wary orators appeared to treat the graduates of '68 with respect rather than condescension, and pleaded, in effect, that they reason together as adults. What many of them wanted to reason about was the phenomenon of student unrest...
...that the McGinniss kind of reaction was indeed overdone. "Some psychologists," wrote New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, "believe that the 'sick society' idea is a sort of American defense mechanism; these dreadful things having happened, some Americans are anxious to regain their self-regard and the respect of others, and therefore hurry to accept the responsibility for awful events." It may be, agreed David Broder in the Washington Post, that the wave of assassinations heralds a "social breakdown," but it "seems to me a form of escapism to throw up our hands, and, like a chorus...
...Your excellent article ended with the open question "Can De Gaulle once again save France-this time from himself?" I sincerely believe he cannot, because the general has kept the reins of government too tight for the French people. They have no more respect for him, only disappointment and bitterness. This has led to hatred and anarchy, which cannot be stopped any more because it has gone too far. He did very much for France and for the world but he made one big mistake: he always thought of France, never of the French people...