Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calling the Shots. To some experts, Westmoreland's prime weakness as a commander (and every commander has one, military men are quick to point out) is the opposite of the late Douglas MacArthur's. He is too willing to accept orders from Washington without fighting for his own views. "He hasn't had what it takes to insist all the way that his own best ideas prevail," says a former high officer. "No other general has ever had to suffer a command structure like this. But a general has got to know what is right and what...
...example, it is common knowledge that Harvard could accept an entire class, all of whose members achieved SAT scores above 700. But Harvard wants diversity and accepts those with lower scores. The same applies to geographic distribution, social class, ethnic background, wonks vs. jocks; Harvard consciously attempts to achieve a diverse student body...
There are always stodgy souls who feel that such a state of mind or such activity is only permissible after graduation or after marriage. But it seems clear that such a decision is an individual and not an institutional one--and that diverse individual decisions should be acceptable since the institution has made it a point to accept diverse individuals...
...draft. He admits the system is unfair, inequitable, and coercive, but justifies sticking with it because he lacks a better one that works. Although he originally opposed a random-selection draft system, he new favors it and views with dismay those Congressmen "too set in their old ways to accept a new idea on its merits." He is disappointed that the Marshall Commission's reform package was "broken up by Congress and left a grotesque thing that doesn't make sense...
...demonstration can best be interpreted in terms of this inner conflict. Students were confronting the University, asking it to help them or to reject them: "We want you to help us, to protect us, to throw Dow out. But if you do not, we are willing to accept your rejection, your punishment," they were saying. But the University was again able to worm its way out of the problem with a traditional ploy: it neither accepted nor rejected...