General Palmer wrote in his book that the Army benefited greatly from General Westmoreland's leadership in the Pentagon, but that the general "was deeply hurt by the slights accorded him" by Nixon administration officials, "who rarely consulted him on Vietnam affairs".
Disappointed in life and embittered by the lack of recognition accorded him by his contemporaries, particularly Goethe, he came to know an incurably sick woman, Henriette Vogel, who begged him to kill her.
But neither can you teach people peace except by according them dignity and granting them hope.
He was however cheered by the attention showered on him by the citizens of Naples, the prestige accorded him by the kingdom's elite, and the comforts he received at the Hamiltons' residence.
The first time I heard him speak at such a meeting, I was struck by the moral authority of his words, bearing, and presence, and by the obvious respect almost reluctantly but somehow inevitably accorded him by men whom I had come to see as creatures of expedient power and narrow self-interest.
On the other hand, he was now in a position of great trust, accorded him by the threatened patriarchate.
The persistence of Gluck in the repertory comes from the respect accorded him by musicians and the enthusiasm of a few leading singers.
In 1985, James Wolcott, a punk and New Wave enthusiast, found himself weary of Springsteen's "cornball" sincerity and the level of praise accorded him by the "city-slick Establishment".
Despite the high status accorded him by subsequent Angkorean kings, Jayavarman II seems to have left no inscriptions of his own, and the monuments that can be dated to his reign were small and hastily built.
Among the honors accorded him by the French was the rank of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.
An opinion piece in the magazine West Africa said the book deserved to win the Booker Prize, and that Achebe was "a writer who has long deserved the recognition that has already been accorded him by his sales figures".
