Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon get something meatier to read. At week's end, the publishers announced that they had reached a tentative settlement with the printers and mailers, leaders of the strike- who reportedly agreed to accept pay raises in lieu of increased fringe benefits. The agreement still must be ratified by the union membership. But with luck, Bostonians will be getting their fingers dirty again this week...
...whom unbelief is the test of wisdom and for whom Nietzsche is the prophet who gave the right answer a century ago. Even within Christianity, now confidently renewing itself in spirit as well as form, a small band of radical theologians has seriously argued that the churches must accept the fact of God's death, and get along without him. How does the issue differ from the age-old assertion that God does not and never did exist? Nietzsche's thesis was that striving, self-centered man had killed God, and that settled that. The current death-of-God group...
...raises more questions than it answers. Does it not run the risk of slipping into a variety of ethical humanism? And if Jesus is not clearly related in some way to God, why is he a better focus of faith than Buddha, Socrates or even Albert Camus? Rather than accept this alternative, a majority of Christians would presumably prefer to stay with the traditional language of revelation at any cost. And it is not merely conservative evangelists who believe that the words and ideas of Scripture have lost neither relevance nor meaning. Suich a modern novelist as John Updike begins...
...More Infallibilities. The new quest for God, which respects no church boundaries, should also contribute to ecumenism. "These changes make many of the old disputes seem pointless, or at least secondary," says Jesuit Theologian Avery Dulles. The churches, moreover, will also have to accept the empiricism of the modern outlook and become more secular themselves, recognizing that God is not the property of the church, and is acting in history as he wills, in encounters for which man is forever unprepared...
...many city universities, says New York University's President James Hester, are either service schools that accept all comers or aloof and selective schools that seem to wish they were in small college towns. In his four years as head man, hard-driving Hester, 41, has moved N.Y.U. toward his own vi sion of "an unbeatable campus for young intellectuals who bring their hearts to the cities" and revel in ur ban culture...