Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about any movies? Do you really feel they are all that bad and so worthy of derision, or is it just that you have some bad-review quota to fill? My husband and I used to rely on your taste, but now it seems that if we accept your guidance, we will miss many worthwhile films. Do try to be a little more objective...
Optimism & Caution. Neither Fairbank nor Columbia Political Scientist A. Doak Barnett would accept the Fulbright line that the war in Viet Nam would lead to full-scale hostilities with China, with the proviso-which the Administration has repeatedly endorsed-that the U.S. does not intend to destroy what the Chinese consider a buffer regime in North Viet Nam. Both, however, cautioned against bombing Hanoi or Haiphong. Indeed, Administration experts whose policies embody the same reservations advanced by Fairbank and Barnett, expressed mystification last week at Fulbright's recent assertion that "certain China experts in our Government think the Chinese...
...bosses went too far, and such reformers as Wisconsin's Robert La Follette and Idaho's William Borah in 1911 forced the Senators to accept the 17th Amendment, providing for election of Senators by direct popular vote rather than state legislatures. The Senate was never the same again-nor was the presidency...
...shed old spouses and acquire new ones with the approval of the church. Currently, Italian Actor Vittorio Gassman, twice mar ried (to Actresses Nora Ricci and Shelley Winters) and twice civilly divorced, is asking the Rota to annul his church marriage to Ricci on grounds that she did not accept the indissolubility of marriage at the time she contracted it, which would make it invalid in the eyes of the church. The annulment, if granted, would permit Gassman to wed French Actress Juliette Mayniel, who gave birth to their son Alessandro last month...
...wrote an irresistible Dublin farce; in A Singular Man, he created a fantasy figure of power, wealth and charm, who could do everything but was concerned mainly with building a mausoleum to defeat death. In Mr. S, he has created a man who can do nothing but accept death. S, at a fair guess, stands for "singular," and in his singularity lies man's doom. Donleavy is a natural comedian who achieves his black effects by means as economical as those of a gifted mime doing a skit on a deathbed scene. Should he decide on a full-length...