Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kazantzakis was, then, born of a race and land which encouraged him to live on a cosmic scale. And he eagerly accepted this scale, as his introduction to Report to Greco shows. Once one understands this, one can accept seeming pompousness which would otherwise be intolerable. Kazantzakis can use phrases like "my soul began to tremble" because Kazantzakis lived in these terms...
...passion-flowers--and he often paints them in black-and-white. He tends to write philosophy, not literature. It is certainly justifiable to censure him on these grounds, but if one does so one must also reject the world-view from which the passion-flowers spring. If one must accept the world-view, or at least offer a "willing suspension of disbelief" to Kazantzakis's peculiar world, in order to accept the style. Kazantzakis himself raises this problem in Report to Greco...
...first time the CRIMSON called Harrison's home in Surrey, England, the sought-after member of the quartet refused to accept the call...
...Rhodesia Smith inherited was not conciliatory either. When the United Party decided to accept the 1961 constitution, Smith resigned in a rage-and immediately received a telegram of congratulations from archconservative Tobacco Tycoon Douglas Collard Lilford. "Ian Smith, and Ian Smith alone, was the one to get up and say no," recalls "Boss" Lilford. "He was the only blessed one to resign. This man has steel in him." Smith drove out to Lilford's estate near Salisbury, talked the tobacco man into helping him found the Rhodesian Front to preserve "Rhodesia for the Rhodesians...
...very much moved by the argument that the Board may be fairer if a student is allowed to appear." Frederick C. Cabot '59, acting senior tutor in Winthrop House, said yesterday. He suggested, however, that few students would accept the opportunity to appear before the Board for questioning...