Word: respectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been ever since China. But he indulges this interest to excess. He falls too easily for the big names--Chou En Lai, Stillwell, MacArthur, Mao, Eisenhower and Kennedy. To White, these people are all bigger and better than life. He loses his perspective which causes the reader to lose respect for White's credibility...
...House" - a pallid echo of Kenyatta's favorite title, "the father of the nation." Says one Western diplomat in Nairobi: "The man's no Kenyatta. But it's rather like the American system of choosing a fairly ordinary guy whom quite a lot of people respect and few really hate...
...have too many decision makers and too many groups trying to exercise a veto over decisions, and with that you reach a paralysis in government." In the extreme, there could be worse things than paralyzed government. There could come a breaking of that basic spirit of accommodation and mutual respect that, in the final analysis, is the very heart of American democracy - but not an abstract matter of "goodness." Everybody's self-interest is ultimately undermined when the capacity for give-and-take and conciliation erodes...
Torrens reported to Bok in his letter that alumni were upset at the "chiding, chastising, and frankly belittling manner with which you approached that faculty." Torrens wrote that the Alumni Council will not support fundraising for the school until "the dignity and respect" of the faculty is restored...
...what director and actor create is a subtly satirical yet never vicious tone that has a delicacy not often found in American films. They can mock the excesses (of behavior and expectations) of a radicalism past while retaining a decent respect for its just social criticisms and youthful idealism. At the same time they can note the inertness of a massively materialistic society without be coming shrill and off-putting about it. In short, there is a welcome and unexpected maturity of outlook in this little film that is extraordinarily attractive no matter where you happened to stand during...