Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What's more, mythology can only grow healthily in an air of confusion and uncertainty. The lives of the Beatles, once our number one hero figures, have by now been too well-reported and unambiguous to allow them god-like respect. We have all seen John Lennon picking his nose on the Tonight show, and we have all seen proof that his sexual equipment is of mercy human proportions. Deluged with well-researched information by our zealous press media, we are often confronted with heroes too human and most ungodly...
...This little theater group was operating under 'the star system.' The actors would cut each other's throats for laughs. It had a canned quality, and in that, it was almost like a TV show. The show was artistically bad, and it was boring. The actors didn't respect themselves or each other...
Illinois lawyers respect Hoffman for legal knowledge and craftsmanship. Last year he upheld the Government's first suit to desegregate a Northern school district. In his decision, which involved the Chicago suburb of South Holland...
...gallant touch, Lasker also reassured the Girl Scouts that their sturdy reputation for virtue would easily survive this "wry assault." Said Lasker: "Those who may be amused at the poster presumably never viewed the reputation of the plaintiff as being inviolable. Those who are indignant obviously continue to respect...
Flirting with Recession. The question that bothers some fellow economists is whether Burns will demonstrate the necessary flexibility and adopt an expansionary policy at the right time. His record in that respect is mixed. Intellectually, Burns recognizes the Government's obligation to maintain prosperity. As chairman of President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers from 1953 to 1956, he agreed to increases in Government spending and in the credit supply that his successor, Saulnier, thought were too expansionist. In early 1960, he advised Nixon, then Vice President, that federal spending should be increased and credit eased to head...