Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...April 18, the CRIMSON, in an issue that still makes editors who come across it shiver with pride, announced that it would no longer accept advertising from the tutoring schools and called for a crackdown on "the racket...
...other Cambridge, meanwhile, doe-eyed, ash-blonde Ann Mallalieu, 21, daughter of a British Board of Trade minister, showed up in a black, bell-bottomed corduroy trouser suit to accept her election victory as president of the Cambridge Union, the university's 151-year-old debating society. "I think," said she, delivering the knockout, "that they voted for me as a person and not as a woman...
...long as he chose to get at virtually everything within reach, he was obligated to come up with a better diagnosis than he did. As it is, to appreciate what is good in Hurry Sundown (and there is without a doubt plenty that is good) one has to accept Preminger's oddly limited vision on its own terms...
...chose not to wear his ancestry as a social decoration but to accept it as a present doom and to argue with the Pilgrim Fathers as if they were living men. His poems call the Puritan spirit of New England to sharp account and make his ancestral portraits step from their frames and answer to Lowell. Thus his dialogue becomes an argument about his own nature, in terms of the Calvinist obsessions with sin, damnation, God and Satan. Lowell does not possess his ancestors; they possess...
...years ago, Lowell received a call from the White House asking whether he would accept an invitation to a festival for the arts. He said yes. Then, recalls his wife, "when he got the official invitation, he decided he didn't feel at all connected to the White House and that what the White House was doing didn't have much connection with the arts." Whereupon Lowell, reflecting the general disaffection of intellectuals with L.B.J., sent the President a telegram declining the invitation. "We are in danger of becoming an explosive and suddenly chauvinistic nation," he wrote. "Every...