Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CRAZY QUILT. Director John Korty fashions a modern fable about a marriage between a realist (Tom Rosqui) and a romantic (Ina Mela), who learn to accept their differences after ten years of mutual misunderstanding...
...protests. Dr. Leslie Weatherhead, a past president of the Methodist Conference, found it "just right." The Rt. Rev. Ronald Williams, Anglican Bishop of Leicester, demurred: "Sexual intercourse outside marriage is wrong, and young people should be told this." This week the British Council of Churches must consider whether to accept the report as an official pronouncement, and the extremes of disagreement guaranteed a battle...
Speaking on "Non-cooperation with the Draft," the former Harvard student explained that he did not accept a 2-S deferment because it is a "class privilege...
Pauper's Pay. In doing so, motive has gained an enviable record for pioneering. It was one of the first church journals to accept and define civil rights as a theological problem. Although Methodist morality frowns on premarital sex, motive has dealt sensitively and sympathetically with student difficulties related to the problem. Such is the magazine's reputation for intellectual openness that theologians of the stature of Thomas Merton, Joseph Sittler and Albert Outler have frequently contributed some of their freshest thoughts to its pages, although $50 is maximum pay for an article...
...father either spoiled him or neglected him. In his youth, he successively became an apprentice lawyer, an engraver and a vagrant. He wandered into the entourage of Mme. de Warens, a sprightly young matron and Catholic convert who was easily able to induce her young lover to accept the old faith. Later, when Rousseau wanted to resume the hereditary rights of a citizen of Geneva, he had to forswear his conversion. The road to and from Rome was equally painless; he was his own religion...