Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somewhat surprised to read the statement of Mr. William Steinberg (formerly Buffalo Bill) about quartets in residence in universities [Oct. 7]. It's sometimes difficult for a conductor to accept the idea that outstanding orchestra musicians feel they could be more constructive teaching and performing in the midst of a renowned school instead of being musically dictated to by the gentleman standing on the podium. A vacation it is not, but a relief...
Fierce & Naughty. It would take a hero to rule so complex a society, and the hardest thing to accept about Ferdinand E. Marcos is that any mortal could have tucked into 49 years as much action, adventure, heroism, devotion to duty, romance, singleness of purpose and accomplishment as he has. Born in the farming town of Sarrat, in Ilocos Norte province on Luzon's craggy northwest slopes. Marcos grew up under a code of spartan self-reliance. His father, Mariano Marcos, was a stern, humorless politician who refused comfort to any of his four children if they cried over injuries...
...Pope Paul VI suggested that bishops over age 75 retire to allow younger men to take over their responsibilities, Cardinal Spellman "humbly and willingly" offered his resignation. Although the cardinal has already turned over many duties to his six auxiliary bishops, the Pope asked him to carry on. "I accept this decision," said the cardinal, "as God's will...
...trial, the issue is whether the church can tolerate within its ranks a bishop who has denied such fundamental dogmas as the Virgin Birth. "We want him to resign the episcopate," Louttit says. "The common word is unfrocked. I want him to admit that he does not accept the faith...
...back in the inflated currency of Concepts. Goldfarb is too hip, too conscious of what any reading audience wants, to bypass the senses. Maybe he appeals to them too often. We develop such faith in his experience -- such confidence in his brilliantly modulated rhetoric -- that we are willing to accept almost any statement as poetically valid, even passages where epigram takes the place of idiom, and ideology assumes the role of experience...