Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Could the allies expect that Hanoi would not veto the Saigon delegation, particularly in view of the fact that Washington was willing to accept some sort of N.L.F. presence at the talks...
When the President met with Thieu in Honolulu in July for private talks, some officials insist, he was trying to persuade Viet Nam's President to accept a bombing halt. After the meeting, Johnson spoke in harsh terms of the fighting ahead, and the assumption was that he and Thieu had agreed on a new step-up in military activity. That assumption may well have been incorrect. Not long after the Honolulu meeting, a group of South Vietnamese senators passed through Paris en route home after a visit to Washington and told newsmen and diplomats there that a bombing...
...insisted on public acknowledgment from Hanoi of any concessions it was making in exchange for a bombing pause. He also firmly refused to countenance N.L.F. participation as an independent entity at the Paris talks. But under insistent pressure from his American allies, he began to weaken, seemed ready to accept the "two-sides" formula...
Convinced that he has done what he set out to do in Berkeley, Sullivan last month announced that he will leave in January to accept a new challenge. He will become state education commissioner for Massachusetts, where a new law requiring racial balance in the schools is meeting some resistance. Most of the opposition is in Boston, which may soon face Sullivan's prodding question-if two-way bussing works in Berkeley, why not there as well...
...same time, They can accept feminine ideals--gentleness, passivity, endurance--if actual femininity is rejected. In Bernard Malamud's The Fixer, the hero partakes of the heroic aspects of femininity but is revolted by actual femininity to the point of refusing sexual intercourse. Conversely, They revile women for manifesting masculine qualities, aggression in particular. Women's books are reviewed as if they were women--criticized for being "shrill," praised for being "not shrill." Critics call Marianne Moore "the best women poet in America." Why not the best blue-eyed poet? In the Nov. 1 issue of Time Magazine...