Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mayor has fulminated repeatedly about the distorted coverage that press and television gave to the demonstrations. Obviously, some reporters and commentators grew highly emotional. But too many impartial Chicagoans and visitors, and too many editors, correspondents and writers, witnessed the confrontations to accept Daley's version. What they saw was a collapse of professional discipline within the police ranks...
...clear conscience, because I have fulfilled my duties as a writer in all circumstances and because I will fulfill them even more successfully, more indisputably, when I am dead than I can while I am still alive. Nobody can bar the road to the truth. I am ready to accept death for the sake of the movement. But how many lessons do we need to teach us that the writer's pen should not be stopped while he still lives...
...starts explaining about the machinery. Those who take their funhouses seriously may grow confused and exasperated. But readers of The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy are familiar with Barth's impulses toward farce, his intellectual mobility, shaggy doggerel and merry nihilism. These people are apt to accept the clever gimmickry as one would a party favor...
...vision is unsettling and thought-provoking. Its still difficult to accept wholly but it is clear to me at least that self-searching along these lines will be necessary, a steeling of the mind to reject any lavish but corrupt opportunities that may beckon in favor of a simpler and more frugal, but more satisfying, life...
...huge demonstration in which about half a million people marched to the Zocalo (the government center). These were not just students, but parents, teachers, and people from the countryside. A group of 5000 people remained after the demonstration and said they would stay there until the government would either accept the six-point plan or agree to open discussion of it. During the demonstration, the bells of the Cathedral at the Zocalo were rung (with permission of the Church) to signify the quest for freedom, and a black and red flag was placed next to the Mexican flag to symbolize...