Word: respects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honoring a composer who could be there, many a Hungarian felt as if he were also paying respect to another composer who couldn't. Wrote one critic: "We are able to honor Kodály in his lifetime-which, sadly, we were unable to do for Bartók." (Bartók died, neglected, in New York City...
...they would get to Manchester if they started from Euston and to Brighton if they went from Victoria. Nothing can revive that belief. Once they believed that Christian principles had something to do with public conduct. But why should . . . anybody . .. expect people to go to church and listen with respect to a priest reading the Sermon on the Mount, when they know that atom bombs are being made for use? The Church decays because the doctrines so often seem irrelevant to the issues of life and death, about which it is supposed to give the answers...
Maine's laconic men have never had much natural respect for a woman's judgment. "Give a woman all the advice in the world and then she'll go ashore with both anchors on the bows," they say. But once in a while they have to make an exception. They have made one for Congresswoman Margaret Chase Smith. Elected to finish the term of her deceased husband in 1940, she was regularly re-elected by her Second District constituents. Last year, when aging Senator Wallace White announced his retirement, she announced herself a candidate for the G.O.P...
...pulpit at Manhattan's Calvary Church, Episcopal Rector Samuel M. Shoemaker said: "Many of us non-Roman Christians have great respect for the present Pope, and respect also some of the stringencies of the Roman system . . . But if there cannot even be conference, with a view to better understanding one another, where differences may be frankly aired and honestly considered, then we are forced to say that, by its own admission, the Roman Catholic communion is simply another totalitarianism demanding complete submission from everyone else as the only condition of fellowship...
...more reckless he grows in boosting the merits of a collective economy and in minimizing its dangers. His bland references to the U.S.S.R. as "the great experiment" which threatens free enterprise with "successful socialism" are likely to chill the spines of many who otherwise might hear his opinions with respect...