Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present in the structure of the play as a whole. Frantz, like Geotz of The Devil and Good Lord and Hugo of Dirty Hands, is liberated by his choice to face life as it is, which for Sartre meant choosing Marxism. "Going downstairs" is a perfect symbol for the acceptance of political participation by so many of Sartre's other characters, and suicide always follows their conversion as it does Frantz's. Yet Sartre still clings to both philosophies. For Frantz in the end escapes mauvaise-foi, his refusal to accept the reality of his past, and his last words...
...City Council, faced with the conflicting pleas of businesses, residents, and M.I.T., has thus far failed to take any definite stand. It has until March 1--next Tuesday--to recommend an alternative to the Brookline-Elm St. alignment or accept the DPW's almost certain decision to select this route...
...Shortcomings. Keitel considered it himself but decided against it. "The armed forces," he wrote in his Nürnberg cell, "would have labeled me a deserter and a coward. Hitler himself chose death rather than accept responsibility. For him to have committed suicide when he knew he was defeated . . . for him to have left it to a subordinate to account for his auto cratic and arbitrary actions, these two shortcomings will remain forever incomprehensible to me. They are my final disillusion...
...September 13, 1961, O'Brien--then the U.N.'s chief of operations in Katanga--authorized U.N. troops to move against the forces of Moise Tshombe's secessionist government. At first it was reported that Tshombe was subdued and would have to accept whatever cease-fire terms might be offered him. But it quickly became clear that Elisabethville was not yet under U.N. control, and what had seemed an easily won victory evolved into a costly defeat...
...Ivies, however, denied that the legislation affected them, that they would accept anything but their own admissions policies, or that they would fill out the forms of compliance...