Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faculty plans to constantly meet with students about curriculum, and let them have a major voice as to what is offered. But many feel, as Farner does, that FCC has a real obligation to try new things, and so they are hoping that in time, stu-students will accept the innovative courses...
...first step in grasping the reaction of the majority of Americans to lawlessness is to understand that the only thing that makes our Government work is the recognition by the individual of the obligation to accept the majority opinion once lawfully stated, no matter which side he may have taken in' the debating stage. In equating our colony's revolt against King George with the current radicals' attacks on our established democratic forms, you seem to understand this as poorly as the rioters...
...Doer is self-starting, and constantly in motion. His ego is proof against reverses. He is likely to be a moralist rather than an ideologue-a Ralph Nader instead of a Mark Rudd. Because he combines pragmatism, idealism and creativity, he can accept life's ambiguities-and then synthesize them into surprising new patterns. In Doer, wrath at the status quo translates into useful social action. In the revolutionary, it accummulates; unable to find release, it bursts into antisocial violence...
...that electronic sounds suggest the dissonances in everyday life? Perhaps. But, as Italian-born Composer Luciano Beno says, music "cannot lower the cost of bread. It is incapable of stopping wars, it cannot eradicate slums and injustice." Granting that much, Beno, a leading innovator of musical forms, refuses to accept the conventional barriers. He is appalled that composers today seem to regard music as an isolated phenomenon, created in a vacuum for the "greater glory of musical systems."" Never before, he says, "has the composer come so dangerously close to becoming an extraneous or merely decorative figure...
Minnesota's Secretary of State Joseph L. Donovan was not about to accept petitions nominating Mrs. Charlene Mitchell, a 38-year-old Negro, and Youth Leader Mike Zagarell, 23, for President and Vice President of the U.S. The fact that Zagarell is twelve years too young to meet the legal requirements for Vice President was the least of Donovan's objections. Mrs. Mitchell and Zagarell are Communists, and the Communist Control Act of 1954 says that their party "should be outlawed" as the agent of a foreign power. Under the law, said the Minnesota Attorney General, the Communists...