Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...respect for the old, particularly in manners...
...Washington, thinned down (by 30 Ibs.) but recovered from his operation. His answer to recognition was neither yes nor no. It was not yet. Said Michigan's Vandenberg: Communist China must first demonstrate its "competent control [and] its willingness to observe the rules of international law. In neither respect does it now qualify for recognition...
...just that Playwright Kanin sets theater above drama, but that he displays an almost equal lack of respect for his sordid material and his own talent. The one concern with squalor is to make it picturesque at all costs; with vulgarity, to exploit it for laughs. In the end The Rat Race gets nowhere; worse, it gets dull, repeating a lot of facile tricks and typifying a theater where, more & more, clever playwrights write everything but plays...