Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their country is currently in "grave danger." The commission now has another two years to recommend what else can be done, as its mandate says, for a "satisfactory matching up between the minimum of what French-speaking Canadians consider as vital and the maximum that English-speaking Canadians will accept...
Violence was a favorite topic. Denying that comics corrupt the young, Professor Fausto Bongioanni declared: "The comics prepare a child for life. Let us accept the facts; life is not sweet." "I have found a moral decline in Walt Disney's comics," announced Professor Giovanni Bertin. "The positive character Mickey Mouse has been replaced by the negative Donald Duck. The emergence of an evil Donald Duck is a bad omen for American mores...
...Lists of cans and cannots are meaningless," said Princeton's Paul Ramsey. Yale's Protestant chaplain, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, similarly approved the new morality's concept of "guideposts" rather than "hitching posts," although he thought that the church would have to be restructured to accept it as a way of life...
Part of the democratizing influence resides in the fact that most community colleges accept any resident high school graduate. The proximity of such a college can raise the percentage of a particular high school's graduates who enter college from 20% to 70%. A big attraction is low tuition (sometimes free, as in all of California's and some of New York's public junior colleges) and the relative cheapness of living at home. Particularly in an urban setting, these colleges are what Leland L. Medsker, vice chairman of the University of California's Center...
...when the word came down that "the Faculty won't compromise"--that it wouldn't accept an elective committee--then the HDC membership proved strangely acquiescent, and approved the constitution, 39-1. "It's this or nothing," people said. "We'd better try it." And there was the unspoken suggestion that if the HDC humbled itself at last, the Faculty and the executive committee would lead it out of the wilderness. Special benefits were promised to HDC members. The Faculty Committee, it was announced, would grant the club the proceeds from a night's performance of a mainstage production, "when...