Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life which surrounds him. I refuse to ac cept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daylight of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality...
...Today I come to Oslo as a trustee, inspired, and with renewed dedication to humanity. I think Alfred Nobel would know what I mean when I say that I accept this award in the spirit of a curator of some precious heirloom which he holds in trust for its true owner-all those to whom beauty is truth and truth, beauty-and in whose eyes the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold...
...futile." Now, at last, that view seems to have changed. Last week, as diplomats and economists from a score of nations gathered in the Peruvian capi tal of Lima for the third annual full-dress review of the Alianza, there was encouraging evidence that most Latin American nations now accept its goals and are working to achieve them. Said Colombia's Carlos Sanzde Santamaria, astute chairman of the Alianza's key planning committee: "We have made great strides in stating our problems and in diagnosing them-and we are making a start at solving them...
...speaks a character in his latest collection of poems. But Death had better not try to gatecrash Britain's John Masefield, who at 86 has plenty more to say and intends to say it. In London to accept a $7,000 prize from the National Book League, Britain's poet laureate (official salary: $272 per annum) allowed in a tense shout: "I am still writing, and I hope to write better some day. At 86, some of the cobwebs have been knocked away, and the scene becomes grander. Much more majestic are those fables that await retelling...
...Psychiatrist Cohen, some of the most interesting questions about LSD involve its value as an aid to psychotherapy, especially in the treatment of alcoholics. The main advantage, Dr. Cohen believes, is that the patient becomes better able to accept what are normally painful insights into his own shortcomings. He can observe himself with detachment, and this speeds treatment. There are some patients, though, especially those on the borderline of a psychosis, for whom LSD is definitely dangerous...