Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jaspers, has declared that they knew what was happening. But the great majority of Germans still maintain their innocence of any knowledge about the Nazi crimes. Even when testimony to that effect comes from so distinguished a person as Chancellor Kiesinger, many non-Germans will find it difficult to accept...
...enough of a personality to carry off greatness with grace should he achieve it. He should. He said he thought American audiences were more emotional than British ones and found this gratifying, "In England, you feel like you're on trial every time you appear and they will never accept you without reservations...
...Hanoi for a reciprocal gesture of de-escalation but couching it in the broadest terms to date. "This could be done de facto," said Vance. "It could be done by some indication, either directly or indirectly, that such a step is being taken." Hanoi's delegates refused to accept that gambit, but Radio Hanoi implicitly met a longstanding U.S. demand that North Viet Nam acknowledge the presence of its troops south of the Demilitarized Zone. Said a broadcast People's Army statement monitored in Hong Kong: "The peoples and armies of our whole country will continue fighting shoulder...
...want the bad guys to win. They can erase the black-and-white division between good and evil, or make it tougher for the good guys, or even cloud everything in ambiguity. But there are too many reasons around for not affirming devil worship to allow us to accept Polanski's recent films without pausing for thought...
Blue-Eyed Soul. Does this mean that white musicians by definition don't have soul? A very few Negroes will concede that such white singers as Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee have it, and Aretha also nominates Frenchman Charles Aznavour. A few more will accept such blues-oriented whites as the Righteous Brothers, Paul Butterfield, and England's Stevie Winwood?largely because their sound is almost indistinguishable from Negro performers'. But for the most part, Negroes leave it up to whites to defend the idea of "blue-eyed soul," whether by the criterion of talent, experience or temperament. Janis Joplin...