Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public is "far ahead of present-day educators" in willingness to accept innovation in schools, says Pollster George Gallup in a new survey of parental opinion. If parents had their way, all classrooms would already be using teaching machines and programmed textbooks for "fact" learning, team teachers would be focusing on the great, neglected field of training kids in how to think and analyze, children would progress by ability groups rather than grades, advanced students would spend nearly half of their time studying alone. And school administrators would be hotly devising even newer methods of instruction...
...kept reporting back home that Pius had "affection" and "respect" for the German people. Shortly before the fall of France, Diego von Bergen, the German Ambassador to the Vatican, wrote to Berlin that high-placed officials of the Holy See had assured him that they wanted the Allies to accept a negotiated peace on the Western front. In August 1943, the new German Ambassador to the Vatican, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, told Berlin that in Rome, "Bolshevism is the greatest cause of concern." Friedlander is aware that the Nazi archives are incomplete but could find only three ineffectual and half...
Perhaps it is not all so terrible after all, he continued. "If one is willing to accept the finger-in-the-dike argument in support of any spot of literacy, there is some small justification for every magazine." While waiting for that spot, "we editors shall simply have to endure, talking to ourselves and our faithful little bands of subscribers...
...critical as well as critical of the Administration, was perhaps best expressed last week by Bethlehem Steel Chairman Edmund F. Martin. "Government and business must be partners," he told the American Iron and Steel Institute. "To be blunt about it, we in business have not always been ready to accept our responsibility. This has given ambitious men in Government a readymade excuse to move into fields better dealt with by private effort. Worse still, it has reduced our influence in guiding social change...
...short, Americans favor almost any course of action which might end the war, but they will not accept the likely consequences of such actions. They have not yet learned the chief lesson of twentieth century history: that there is no particular reason why things have to turn out right...