Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they pick up the gaps in credibility and are not so ready to accept the old cliches. It's not just facts that become known, but awareness of contradictions, arbitrariness and ambiguity...
...ever get his own party into line, Socialist Nenni hopes that he can persuade the Christian Democrats to accept reforms in divorce, education, welfare, housing, economic planning and labor. He also knows quite well that the Christian Democrats, who must live with their own strong right wing, are unlikely to vote all those reforms. But perhaps, he reasons, there finally are enough Christian Democratic leaders who are sufficiently disturbed by last summer's upheaval in France and the drift toward disillusionment in their own society to demand that after years of do-nothing government, the next one do something...
...Regarding such concrete power, students should not accept minority status on any group which makes the "social" decisions at Harvard College. (Passed...
...against God's natural law. Since it reflected the views of a distinct minority of Catholic theologians and moralists, the encyclical created an unprecedented storm of protest and dissent within the church. Millions of laymen, priests and even bishops made it clear that they simply could not accept, without qualification, the teaching of Humanae Vitae. At the same time, many contended that their dissent in no way affected their standing as Catholics. By so doing, they raised much larger and more troubling questions about the rights of freedom v. authority in Catholicism-and the limitations on the Pope...
Discussing the role of students on joint student-faculty committees in the past, the HUC resolution advised students not to accept minority membership "on any group which makes the 'social' decisions in the College...