Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Novelist Priestley has said that "the audience will accept almost anything during the first act." What he makes them accept in Time and the Conways' first act is a boring family party. The Conways are celebrating Daughter Kay's (Jessica Tandy) 21st birthday by playing charades and talking big about the future. All of them look forward to successful careers, happy marriages. Suddenly Kay, Cassandra-like, peers into the night and foresees the drab reality...
...gracelessly. And so it goes. Only Alan (Godfrey Kenton) is contented as a shabby clerk because he has a new conception of time. Time, as he sermonizes to Kay, is a series of states which man can see only in succession, but which really exist simultaneously. Therefore, man should accept life as a whole, as a composition of light & shade...
...change in the regulations is intended to prevent the Hygiene Department from having to consider so many unnecessary pleas. "We cannot accept responsibility for so many students being absent from their Exams," Dr. Bock said...
...under a policy of ''prudent investment." For obvious reasons the utilities as a rule favor the former, upheld in a series of Supreme Court decisions since 1898. For reasons equally obvious the New Deal has been trying to get the utilities, either through persuasion or compulsion, to accept the theory of "prudent investment...
...dispatches from Hankow routed to the outside world via Moscow. What were said to be the "mild peace terms" being offered by Dr. Trautmann were then released at Tokyo. Japan asks China to pay the cost of the war; she asks the Chinese Government to repudiate Communism and accept Japanese advisers; China is then to recognize Manchukuo and collaborate economically with Japan in joint air and rail services and other projects. Latest reports were that Chiang had twice refused the Japanese proposals, but that Trautmann was going to call with them again...