Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yesterday," recalls Larry, "I was walking down the street in these pants. I had on boots that came to my knees and a green Tom Jones shirt. Everyone looked at me like I was a bomb or something. It used to bother me. These people out here don't accept anything they don't know. Like, they come in here and say, 'Do you really wear those clothes?' I tell them, 'No, I wear a grey flannel suit and then I change when I get into the store.' These people don't know anything about me. But, like, they figure...
...talk about. The colors. Look at these pants. The blue background is happening. And then the red and silver and gold. I think it's groovy. God just didn't give anyone pants like that. Some guy worked hard to think this up. And nobody appreciates it. Everybody should accept everybody else. I mean, what right have they got to judge my clothes? I like Mod. I like the freedom. I don't want to be the same. So what right have they...
...house of Agata, a widow who lives with her daughter and sister-in-law. Angelo claims to have been a constant companion to Agata's husband before his death, and he uses this claims to make Agata confide her loneliness and insecurity, thus propelling her ultimately to accept him and the freedom he represents...
...strike call. The rainfall and the imminence of this week's quarterly exams also contributed to the absences. The strike organizers demanded that Heyns, who flew back to the campus, promise never again to call police out to handle campus "political" problems, drop all charges against those arrested, accept an entirely new form of student government. Heyns, waiting for emotions to cool, made no promises, but blamed the agitation on outsiders. Berkeley, he said, "can resolve its own problems within its own community, in its own way, but has no protection from outside protests...
...disorder was caused by "middleaged delinquents." As Governor he will have few official powers over the university beyond sitting on its board of regents, although he can influence its budget. His guideline will be that "no one is compelled to attend the university. Those who do attend should accept and obey the prescribed rules...