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...goings of an effete and parasitic monarchy, which we shed our blood in 1776 to be rid of, will forever remain a mystery to me. This is not to denigrate the civility or the quality of other British cultural institutions for which we have a deep and abiding respect. But after all is said, God bless the Republic. Jerome L. Starr New York City...
Granted it takes a whole team to lose to another team by eleven runs. But it takes the theatrics of only a few hotheaded players to make the entire team look like sore losers. The Cardinals have always been and will continue to be a club worthy of respect. Meg C. Schmidt Norman, Okla...
Inman, whom Aaron calls Arthur as affectionately as you would an old uncle just stepped away for tea, seems to have won his editor's respect with his lifelong refusal to pretty himself up, much less anyone else. The diarist would look at scribblings 20 years old, realize what a creep he had been when he had written that, yet reject his right to excise a word. His own wife was "a pathetic little wren," though at another time she was his "treasure girl with a heart of gold," but then again she was "homely as a stump fence built...
...foreign people eaters, such as Canada's Pierre Trudeau, West Germany's Helmut Schmidt and now the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev, have marched one by one into Reagan's presence. None managed to devour him. Instead they have, to a man and woman, emerged with varying degrees of respect and affection...
...poorly in his eighth-grade class and sometimes clowned to mask his feelings of depression. His family was poor and lived in a converted motel. Yet after Felipe died last week, nearly 500 of Patterson's 4,700 residents attended his funeral to accord him the respect he had not attained in life...