Word: respectability
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Question of Respect. Adumah has made several visits to Communist Czechoslovakia, where he has been warmly entertained by his Red hosts. He contrasts those visits with life in London, where he has lived for six years. "If there are two empty seats on a bus, an Englishman will choose the other one, not the one beside me," he says. "Nobody wants you in his house. I pay $10.35 weekly for this room out of my $19 pay. It is lonely here in the winter. We have nowhere to go. At home, we are always strolling outside. And the churches-they...
...Parliament, if you like, or set to work educating your children-both will take a long time. But the real thing that will solve these problems of prejudice is the independence and progress of our African countries. Only by our achievements as free nations will we earn your respect and friendship...
...President that if Khrushchev knew all about the U-2-and at that time, the U.S. had no information that Pilot Powers had been captured-it would be better that "the presidency should not be involved in an international lie, particularly when it would not stand up with respect to the facts." After Herter's disclaimer of presidential responsibility, Gates recommended that the President should take full responsibility. Ike did reverse the U.S. line again and publicly take the blame...
Sergeant Rutledge (Warner) is an embarrassingly bad film by Producer-Director John Ford. The forbearing viewer will recall with respect that Ford also directed such pictures as The Informer and Grapes of Wrath...
Company executives, the survey shows, defend the caste system as a source of discipline and respect: "Someone has to give orders; someone has to take them. If the relation between supervisor and subordinate is fettered by friendship, the company loses." For example, an accounting manager had two close friends who did a sloppy job working for him. Result? All three were fired. The reason, explains a member of top management, is simple: "Every supervisor at one time or another has to get tough with his subordinates. He can't do this if he's too friendly with...