Word: respect
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...movies and bad, action films and comedies, Arnold gets four stars. His pictures can use a strong premise, but they don't need high-priced supporting players; his aura is enough. (Quick, name the second-billed actor of The Terminator, Commando, Predator or Total Recall.) He also has the respect -- maybe even the fear -- of the front-office boys, because he gets involved in every aspect of production and promotion...
...most important service that Street Beat offers is friendly and helpful contact beyond the hard streets of the Bronx. "We provide some dignity and respect," says Zayas. "It is sometimes all they get." Alice finishes eating her cheese-and-bologna sandwich and gets ready to head back outside. "Street Beat is good," she says. "No one else helps. If they didn't help, these kids would be dead...
Principal Peters chafes at the notion of the integrated classroom as the sole avenue to sound education. "Forget the idea that black children can't learn unless they're sitting next to a white child," she argues. "Some values are universal, like self-love, respect, integrity and perseverance." She incorporates seven such principles into a candle-lighting ceremony at the beginning of each school year for the new eighth-graders. "We tell them, 'This is your beginning of becoming young black adults. There is nothing wrong with...
Much of the stumbling and incoherence that gets in the way of effective communication these days has its origin in our failure early on to develop respect for thought processes. The way thoughts are converted into language calls for no less attention in formal schooling than geography or mathematics or biology or any of the other systematic subjects. Squeezing essential meaning into arbitrary and unworkable time limits leads to glibness on one end and exasperation on the other. We need not put up with either...
...dean said the school has already made some progress in this respect, pointing to a new course on gender in politics. But he agreed that such efforts are not enough, and that the school should include more women as role models in its classroom case studies and continue to recruit new women faculty members...