One of my accomplices in this enterprise, Michael Kaufmann — now a respectable professor of English at Temple University — joked that we should conduct a wretched poetry competition in Kilmer's honor.
As with Michael Owen before him, it's time we stopped thinking about Dawkins as a respectable professor or a leading atheist thinker, and instead as a doddering old man who once stood and watched two dogs lick each others' lollipops for, what, ten, 15 minutes?
The General gave a respectable and respectful answer to the law-professor-turned-legislator; Petraeus was himself a Princeton PhD.
The resources available to viewers in a family gallery, art exhibitions and an anatomical institute suggest interpretations of this first portrait of an embryologist as such – the Basel scholar and Leipzig professor, the respectable researcher of origins, the founder of modern human embryology – that differ from the stock figures of evolutionist, abortionist and experimentalist.
The opening pages of any respectable textbook include pictures of distinguished professors and authorities on reading or biology or whatever the subject is.
The Professor, an elderly and respectable teacher at Harvard, had a long-standing quarrel with his creditor, Dr. Parkman.
He said that former Ferguson colleague Willie Miller often calls him Alec when talking on the radio and ex-Scotland manager Craig Brown is prone to using the informal Alec, quickly followed by the more respectable Sir Alex. Carole Hough, professor of onomastics, says she can think of no particular reason why people would choose one or the other, except that Alec is slightly shorter.
Reformed and respectable Ayers is now an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, an informal advisor to Chicago's mayor and a past contributor to an Obama campaign.
Law professors and pundits make a respectable living out of doing this.
"It's a respectable record," said David Rebovich, a political science professor at Rider University.
