Monogamy is the vice from which the abjectly fearful middle class continue to suffer, whereas the beatnik has the courage to break out of that prison of respectability.

He did build a framework of academic `` respectability '', and one which did not encroach upon the `` sacred sovereignty '' of any other existing campus course.

Early in life, Epictetus acquired a passion for philosophy, and with the permission of his wealthy owner, he studied Stoic philosophy under Musonius Rufus, which allowed him to rise in respectability as he grew more educated.

Hoping to force him into respectability, Mrs. Chasen replaces Harold's beloved hearse with a Jaguar ( which he then converts to a miniature hearse ), and sets up several blind dates, or more accurately, " bride interviews " with young women.

Robert Nozick's 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia, which won a National Book Award, responded to Rawls from a libertarian perspective and gained academic respectability for libertarian viewpoints.

Upon Powell's death, Wilfred Wood, then Bishop of Croydon, stated, " Enoch Powell gave a certificate of respectability to white racist views which otherwise decent people were ashamed to acknowledge ".

The greater social respectability of the established church, in which some of Anning's gentleman geologist customers such as Buckland, Conybeare, and Sedgwick were ordained clergy, was also a factor.

He " never painted a nude ", and his wife modelled for several of his harem scenes, which, with the rare examples by the classicist painter Lord Leighton, imagine " the harem as a place of almost English domesticity, ... ... women's fully clothed respectability suggests a moral healthiness to go with their natural good looks ".

Honoré Balzac was born into a family which had struggled nobly to achieve respectability.

Some authorities considered scat singing as lacking respectability, including BBC Radio which did not permit scatting on air in the late 1930s.

He secured his literary niche in 1868 with the publication of his fourth book Ragged Dick, the story of a poor bootblack's rise to middle-class respectability, which was a huge success.

Over the next two years they recorded the albums The Gilded Palace of Sin ( 1969 ) and Burrito Deluxe ( 1970 ), which helped establish the respectability and parameters of the genre, before Parsons departed to pursue a solo career.

Zündel gained prominence and respectability during the 1970s as spokesman for Concerned Parents of German Descent, a group which claimed that German-Canadians and their children were the target of discrimination due to anti-German stereotyping in the media.

Such " castings " are generally discouraged by the Miss Universe Organization, which prefers national pageants that preserve an aura of respectability and competition.

" The quid pro quo for this indulgence of the Catholic Church's interests in Ireland was the degree of respectability which it conferred on De Valera's formerly denounced republican faction and its reputation as the ' semi-constitutional ' political wing of the ' irregular ' anti-treaty terrorist minority.

Michael Walzer claimed that the growth of religious toleration in Western nations arose amongst other things, from the general recognition that private conscience signified some inner divine presence regardless of the religious faith professed and from the general respectability, piety, self-limitation, and sectarian discipline which marked most of the men who claimed the rights of conscience.

" Despite his association with Albani, Winckelmann steered clear of the shady world of art dealing which had compromised the scholarly respectability of such brilliant, if much less systematic antiquarians as Francesco Ficoroni and the Baron Stosch.

As Music Hall grew in popularity and respectability, and as the licensing authorities exercised ever firmer regulation, the original arrangement of a large hall with tables at which drink was served, changed to that of a drink-free auditorium.

The New York Times called Berezovsky the " public spokesman and chief lobbyist for this new elite, which moved from the shadows to respectability in a few short years ".

These unions, which also included the Ironfounders, Builders, and Carpenters ' societies, rejected Chartism and the ideas of Robert Owen in favour of a more moderate policy based on ' prudence ', ' respectability ' and steady growth.

The Jeffersons were among the few African-American families in the area who actually owned their land ( as opposed to sharecropping ), which gave them a certain degree of respectability in the community.

However, it is the ‘ cultural turn ’ in wider social science which has lent both respectability and excitement to the nexus with rurality, particularly with new foci on landscape, otherness and the spatiality of nature.

Fauth had previously produced a large ( if somewhat inaccurate ) lunar map and had a considerable following, which lent Hörbiger's theory some respectability.

In 1925, Halas persuaded Illinois star player Red Grange to join the Bears ; it was a significant step in establishing both the respectability and popularity of the league, which had previously been viewed as a refuge for less admirable players.

They saw him as a selling out for money and respectability.

In Illinois, whoever by any false representation or writing signed by him, of his own respectability, wealth or mercantile correspondence or connections, obtain ; credit and thereby defrauds any person of money, goods, chattels or any valuable thing, or who procures another to make a false report of his honesty, wealth, & c., shall return the money, goods, & c., and be fined and imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year.

The Economic Times once described Nusli Wadia as " the epitome of South Mumbai's old money and genteel respectability ".

She urges him to seriously consider an offer to leave the Sun and become an assistant managing editor at the New York Sentinel, a fictional newspaper based on The New York Times, which would mean more money, shorter hours, more respectability ... but might also be a bit boring for his tastes.

If they decide not to have a Governor and the public agrees with that, and Parliament agrees, and the Queen agrees to it, that is a different matter, but while there is a Governor you have got to give him some respectability and credibility, because he is the host for the whole of New South Wales.

Many of the characters in the novel are satirical portraits of influential and powerful Parisians of Crébillon ’ s time ; the author takes the opportunity to ridicule hypocrisy in its different forms ( worldly respectability, virtue, religious devotion ).

Lesser believed that Sesame Street research " may have conferred a new respectability upon the studies of the effects of visual media upon children ".

This service was described in the first advertisements as being " upon the Parisian mode " and that " a person of great respectability

The character's name has become a standard description of anyone ranting at the world in general, and has even found its way into politics, Oswald Mosley dismissing Enoch Powell after his Rivers of Blood speech as " a Middle Class Alf Garnett ", former Prime Minister Harold Wilson also criticising Powell for making Alf Garnett ' politically articulate ' and conferring upon him ' a degree of political respectability ' Denis Healey accusing Margaret Thatcher of possessing " the diplomacy of Alf Garnett " and more recently has been used in criticism of politicians such as Ken Livingstone and John Reid.

James grew up with the idea that " the image of respectability excused the reality of betrayal.

A runners up spot in the 1982 County Championship brought some respectability, but the decade's only first class silverware was in the 1985 Benson & Hedges Cup with Balderstone still on board making him the most successful trophy winner in the club's history with six.

Waverley ( whose surname name reflects his divided loyalties ) eventually decides to lead a peaceful life of establishment respectability under the House of Hanover rather than live as a proscribed rebel.

The sense of the expression damnatio memoriae and of the sanction is to cancel every trace of the person from the life of Rome, as if he had never existed, in order to preserve the honour of the city ; in a city that stressed the social appearance, respectability and the pride of being a true Roman as a fundamental requirement of the citizen, it was perhaps the most severe punishment.

After five years he moved again to Karlsruhe, where he spent the last years of his life at the Royal Konservatorium struggling to raise the modest courtly musical establishment to respectability.

She once described her life as " one slow descent into respectability ".

This trait carried over into her adult life where she proclaimed, " I hate respectability.

Those that may have thought that after the notoriety of his abrupt departure from Glasgow University, Muir would choose a life of quiet respectability, were soon to have their illusions shattered.

As with much of Lynch's other work ( notably the film Blue Velvet ), Twin Peaks explores the gulf between the veneer of small-town respectability and the seedier layers of life lurking beneath it.

Throughout the life of the book however, the popularity of the text has dramatically increased in both respectability and popularity.

We can construct a story of backdoor illicit liaisons and front door respectability from these fragments and others — Rydberg would hardly be the first, if it were true — but he never spoke openly about his private life at any time, and our best guess would still be guesswork.

The staid respectability of married, heterosexual life and easy, middle class surroundings had been stifling Verlaine's admittedly sybaritic literary talent.

It seems that Mr. St. Clair has been leading a double life, one of respectability, and the other as a beggar.

. With all the surface ' respectability ,' diplomatic and scholarly and illustrious social contacts, my real life has been subversive, anarchic, vicious, lonely, and capricious.

Winterhalter himself regarded his first royal commissions as a temporary intermission before returning to subject painting and the field of academic respectability, but he was a victim of his own success and for the rest of his life he would work almost exclusively as a portrait painter.

With Alf, she gains respectability and a stable life.