Word: respects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Massachusetts Hall sources, the University will take no action with respect to the new bill, since officials believe that defeat of the Barnes Bill has ended all serious threats to academic freedom...
...Battle of the Fafiots. The general uproar was specifically addressed to Robert Schuman, a man who dislikes noise. Although he was almost a political unknown, he had to command France's respect. He had to take a firm line, although he presided over a coalition Cabinet that included Socialists and assorted centrists, as well as his own strongly Catholic M.R.P. Above all, as a convinced economic liberal, he wanted to end the system of government controls which has been stifling France since the war; but at the same time, he was forced to use repressive measures by current economic...
Love, Mercy & Respect. Though retaining his Jewish faith and socialist belief, Gollancz has here written a fiery, almost transported plea for a return to the ways of the early Christians. Political salvation is possible, he thunders, only if based on a union of traditional religious ethics and the secular humanist tradition of the West. A way of life based on unswerving devotion to love, mercy and respect for human personality is the only vision that can save modern man from total destruction...
What's Left for Leftists. This eloquent if frequently disorganized diatribe is a significant indication of how more thoughtful leftists, repelled by Russian tyranny, now question their old power-centered assumptions. Strands of the Western tradition they had once blithely ignored-its respect for individuality and defense of freedom for dissident minorities-now seem terribly precious to ex-fellow travelers like Gollancz...
...unless the head office prompted it, Andrews transferred the man. Other staffers got the idea: the new boss liked people with plenty of natural curiosity. A faithful front-row attendant at presidential press conferences, Andrews has angered Harry Truman, as he did F.D.R., with his probing inquiries, but won respect and friendship...