Don DeLillo and Robert Stone, to name but two of that decade's newcomers, got respectful readings, with high hopes expressed for their future ventures.
Mr. Havazelet, who got respectful attention for "What Is It Then Between Us?," his first collection of stories, proves himself again an impressively talented writer in "Like Never Before," a book that lives on the precarious edge between loving and cursing.
Artichokes get respectful treatment, although the presentation is unusual.
His achievements as energy secretary get respectful mentions, including one from his leader.
It seemed, before last night, as if Stapleton's music was destined to remain "NPR country," the kind of stuff that gets respectful attention on public radio but fails to get past the gatekeepers of the Nashville-controlled stations.
"When," she asked, "are we going to get respectful of our nudity?" The yellow school bus comes promptly at 2 20 p.m. to collect beachgoers for the ferry, but Ms. Hu and Ms. Rosen are missing.
But when the day arrived on Sunday, the JP Morgan chief executive got a respectful hearing from an audience of 17,000.
His "spoof" theory got "a respectful hearing but no converts among the IG", he wrote in a 4,000-word 4,000-wordr New York magazine: "My gut still tells me I'm right, but my brain knows better than to trust my gut".
On Thursday, Democratic senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Brian Schatz launched a carbon-fee bill – and got a respectful hearing – at the American Enterprise Institute, the leading conservative thinktank, in a possible sign that the uniform opposition to political climate solutions may be softening.
Brown's state budget got quite respectful reviews from both sides of the aisle, with Democrats lauding the end of the state's chronic budget deficits and Brown's new Prop 30 revenues and Republicans pleased by his insistence on reining in new spending initiatives.
The kind of respect that still gets me respectful bows, whenever I visit the village now, after all these years.
