Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imminent at the other end of the European ideological map. Last week Madrid buzzed with the ru mor that Francisco Franco was about to give his nation a new constitution at last. This week Franco will call an extraordinary session of the Cortes which, later this month, will accept a new "institutional law" and put it to the people in a referendum before year...
...been devoted to the painstaking resolution of the minor ecclesiastical differences between the churches. The Methodists elect bishops for life, the E.U.B. for renewable four-year terms. Methodist district superintendents are appointed by bishops; E.U.B. superintendents are elected by the annual conferences. In the end, the E.U.B. voted to accept the Methodist practices in these areas...
...with the aid of a platoon of lyricists, he found himself swamped in acclaim. "The public took to me, and whoosh," he says. "I sang at this little cafe, Chez Tonton, and at the same time I made records. My price went up, and I still couldn't accept all the offers. This was all too fast for the classical guy I was-two, three, four five songs I had to write all at once, and yet I still needed new material...
Excitement & Horror. Bacon does not accept commissions, and his subjects are quite naturally his closest friends. Frequently he paints Isobel Rawsthorne, wife of Composer Alan Rawsthorne (see opposite page); or the painter Lucian Freud, the grandson of Sigmund. He does not try to provide insights into their specific characters. Says he, "I am really trying to create formal traps which will suddenly close at the right moment recording this fact of man as accurately...
...Simon accepted the Hills's abduction as fantasy. John Fuller, however, believes in UFOs. He heard about the Hills in 1965 when he was working on his first flying-saucer book, Incident at Exeter (TIME, Sept. 2). From Simon's tapes and from interviews with the Hills, he has stitched together an account that he himself wants to accept as earthshaking. Assuming that all this is true, he writes, "such an event would demand a re-examination of religion, politics, science and even literature." To say nothing of heads...