Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enjoyed reading your Essay [Aug. 18], "Corruption in Asia." Made me aware of the graft and corruption where I came from, the Philippines. Quite embarrassing to admit and accept the corruption in our government, but it's true. Nepotism in the Philippines is rampant. Compadre system is a way of life...
...week's end Thieu finally made his first appearance alongside his ten civilian rivals. Commenting on his earlier peace proposals, Thieu told a cheering crowd of 2,500 in My Tho, south of Saigon, that "I cannot believe the Communists will accept peace easily." As if in proof, a terrorist mine only twelve miles from the rally destroyed a bus and killed 22 passengers...
...that Huntington Hartford, 56, can do to tear himself away from the phone these days. On one line, he has been calling several of the nation's loftier cultural institutions, trying to get them to accept as a gift his $5,000,000 Gallery of Modern Arton Manhattan's Columbus Circle. The star-crossed A. & P. heir first sought to benefact Columbia and Fordham universities, which hastened to decline when they got a load of the museum's $3,800,000 mortgage and $500,000 yearly upkeep; now he hopes that some philanthropic soul like Uncle...
...dissects this slice of Indian life, he works outward from individual characters toward general truths. His young couple are well enough educated to cope with the city's mechanized realities, yet bound to an ancient morality. The husband (Anil Chatterjee) can accept the fact of his wife's working, but not the lipstick she must use on the job. The wife (Madhabi Mukherjee) looks with childlike eagerness upon her newly won status, but goes to pieces before the in-laws' condemnation...
...parents and his sister. Money is scarce, and the wife takes a job selling home appliances from door to door. The old couple are shocked by the idea of a woman working. The husband's pride, too, is wounded, but the bank fails and he must accept the fact that the wife is now the family's sole breadwinner. In the end, she quarrels with her employer and quits. Husband and wife join hands to find new jobs...