Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that although the Critique does not succeed, it is a work of great importance. In the coarsest terms, the argument of both men is that existentialism emphasizes means (the individual) while Marxism emphasizes ends (the social system). One cannot, Odajnyk argues, combine coherently these two philosophical extremes. One must accept one or the other, or choose a philosophy such as liberalism, in some form, that views life as a series of compromise between individual and society...
...destroying a world where solitary exaltation was still possible for a few, and you were agreeing to pay the price for your future exaltations. Today, it is different. It is no longer a matter of defending the status quo, but of changing it. This is what you will not accept, unless accompanied by the most formal guarantees. And I suppose that if I believed, with you, that History is a pool of filth and blood, I would do as you, and look twice before diving in. But suppose that I am in it already, suppose that, from my point...
...switched, is supporting Tshombe as the man who can conceivably avert chaos in the Congo and who so far has been successful in suppressing the Red-backed rebels. While nationalist African opinion still fulminates against this U.S. policy, a great many African leaders have quietly begun to accept...
...itself is certainly a leading maker of world opinion. Other nations knowingly accept American techniques and, sometimes unwittingly, American values. The U.S. can and does argue its case with the force of freedom's reason. Yet U.S. institutions can also be baffling to international opinion, and U.S. policies are often inconsistent. In the spirit of a "decent respect to the opinions of mankind," the U.S. perhaps needs to announce its purposes more clearly and then act on them fearlessly. In influencing the minds of men, it is more important to state than to reply, to proclaim the truth than...
...insist that there are seldom enough qualified Negro applicants for jobs-and in any case, liberal-minded clergy find it easier to condemn discrimination by employers rather than by unions. Dr. Gayraud Wilmore, director of the United Presbyterian Religion and Race Commission, admits that many churches are content to accept a letter from a corporation official, and do little in the way of following up their contractual demands...