Word: treating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...among common people. He has a sense of character, or he would not know his job. He will take no man's money dishonestly and no man's insolence without a due and dispassionate revenge. He is a lonely man and his pride is that you will treat him as a proud man or be very sorry you ever saw him. He talks as the man of his age talks--that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness...
...After a while these people, these radicals start believing what they say so they get wrapped up in what they're doing. They just treat themselves so seriously. So we thought that by putting up a gulag we could protest the fact that the University is basically caving in to these people. And also maybe puncture [SASC's] balloon of seriousness...
...major reunion classes may pay a lower price to attend the reunion--$480 per couple--but their events cost Harvard less to run and their donations this year have dwarfed the reunions' costs. The Class of '36 has forked over $2.4 million to the College Fund; Harvard will treat them to a $180,000 shindig this week...
Criticism jostles Cuomo, and he retaliates. From time to time, writers in distant places have been startled to pick up the phone and hear the Governor on the line questioning the accuracy of their stories. Often he accuses critics of bad motives. Says a former close colleague: "Mario cannot treat honest criticism with respect. He views it as a personal attack." By now Cuomo has identified exactly how he responds to attacks. Recently he analyzed himself in the diary. "The first phase is the defensive one," he wrote. "For a short time there is regret, distaste, a desire to return...
...sure, the Senate is not planning to treat viewers to cinema verite. There will be no panning shots of the near empty rows of desks, no cutaways to Senators yawning or fidgeting. To try to add some suspense to roll-call votes, a clock showing the countdown to the 15-minute limit on voting time flashes occasionally on the screen. In reality, the Senate is not the least bit bound by the 15-minute limit, so the TV clock will disappear after 14 minutes have passed...