Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disturbed by the article on the ideological schism in the Communist world [Sept. 20] and the partially hidden suggestion that Bertrand Russell would "gullibly accept Soviet outrages." After reading several works by and about Lord Russell, I have yet to find even the slightest hint that he condoned the Stalinist purges. In fact in his essay "Why I Am Not a Communist," he states that he believes that Communism's theoretical tenets are false and that Communism would "produce an immeasurable increase of human misery...
...consequences. But many others were hesitating, as they watched and waited to see what the Soviets would do next. As of last week, some 50,000 Czechoslovaks, by their own government's count, remained in the West. Some 10,000 of them have asked various Western countries to accept them as refugees officially, thus taking the first irrevocable step toward finding completely new lives. But the majority, by extending their tourist visas, by seeking student or work permits, or simply by staying put, are postponing a final decision. They are referred to by their host countries in such vague...
...movie premiere. So Hollywood's Burt Lancaster pulled up his red Mercury and was approached by a pair of California highway patrolmen, who informed him that he had been driving at 55 m.p.h. in a 45-m.p.h. zone. O.K., Mac, here's a ticket. Burt refused to accept it, explaining: "I want to get an education." He was taken to the county jail in Los Angeles, where he refused to post the $65 bail and spent the night in a cell. Obviously he is a quick teach. By 8 a.m., he considered himself sufficiently well-educated to hand...
Britain's 26 Roman Catholic bishops produced an artfully worded document that stressed obedience to the Pope's decree but also had kind words for those who cannot accept its teachings. The bishops cautioned that "if we are to neglect the guidance of the church, morality could easily become merely subjective. That would be disastrous." They also affirmed that "neither this encyclical nor any other document of the church takes away from us our right and duty to follow our conscience." They noted the dilemma of "faithful couples" who cannot easily support another child, and of wives whose...
...Last April, a summons to appear in Rome was issued to Swiss Theologian Hans Küng of Tubingen University, who has so far refused to accept the invitation until the Vatican accepts his conditions. One is that Küng be allowed to see the dossier of charges against him; Rome refuses...