Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measure-meets to consider the matter. Angry as they are, most Congressmen now realize, like it or not, that higher taxes are mandatory if the economy and the dollar are to be saved. But like it or not, Lyndon Johnson also will have to bite the bullet and accept cutbacks that will maim some of his proudest programs...
...easy enough to argue that power at Columbia should be redistributed; it is harder to say how. Quite clearly, students have neither the maturity, time, permanent interest nor long-range commitment to play more than a contributing role. Quite clearly also, Columbia cannot accept guerrilla warfare against the administration as a valid strategy to achieve campus change. Columbia's highly individualistic faculty, while renowned for scholarly excellence, has never been noted for its community, responsiveness, or for desire to undertake the drudgery of administrative responsibility. Thus the task Columbia faces in rethinking its goals and organization...
Manager Rudolf Bing turned it down, even after Austrian Chancellor Josef Klaus personally urged him to accept. The New York Philharmonic's Leonard Bernstein and Cleveland's George Szell were approached, but said no thanks. The Hamburg Opera's Rolf Liebermann declined an offer, and feelers were rejected by former Edinburgh Festival Director Lord Harewood and the West Berlin Opera's Egon Seetehlner...
...practice, a growing number of African missionaries are willing to accept converts who they suspect are secretly practicing polygamy. Hillman concedes that the church should not encourage polygamy. But he also argues that the church should accept as converts tribesmen who have already contracted valid polygamous marriages. To do otherwise, says Hillman, means telling a man, "in the name of the Christian ideal of marriage and family life, that he must divorce the mother of his own children...
...evening I discover that the electricity to the kitchen is cut off. I run downstairs and almost call for "some important" but somehow I am unwilling to accept that kind of status relation. I tell several of my peers and one of them finds the fuse box and sets things right...