Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stages into moviedom's business offices, where today he functions as a vice president for public relations with Technicolor Corp. And last year he began thinking seriously about running for the Senate. "I had this thing researched for months," he says. "I wanted to learn if people would accept an actor running for office. And the word was that I had a pretty fair chance. After all, people remember me from all those old movies, and I never played a bad guy. I was always a good guy. It sounds corny, but don't knock it. I found...
...those who can't accept the vicissitudes of either politics or baseball, and prefer the predictable vicissitudes of Harvard football, there are two avenues of escape today...
Goodman's new book is particularly vehement about Harvard. Since the "Organized System" is a "strict top to bottom affair," the University sets a pattern in which grades and other extrinsic determine "who to accept, reward, hire." The archetype of the alienated kid is the guy who "'does' Bronx High to 'make' Harvard and 'does' Harvard to 'make...
...CRIMINAL JUSTICE: In a 1949 decision, the Court allowed states to accept or reject the "exclusionary rule," based on the Fourth Amendment, which bans evidence obtained by unreasonable search and seizure. But then came 1961's Mapp v. Ohio, ordering all states to obey the rule that even if illegally seized evidence shows guilt the defendant may be freed because the police violated the Constitution. Far less controversial: 1963's Gideon v. Wainwright, which overturned the conviction of Florida Indigent Clarence Earl Gideon, applies the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel to all defendants in state criminal...
...Islam and a vaguely worded hope for Jewish conversion; by implication, it reaffirmed the deicide charge by asserting that Jews of today should not be blamed for what happened in Christ's time. The amendments were welcomed by Catholic bishops from Arab lands and by conservative prelates who accept the Gospels as literal accounts of Jesus' life. But they shocked ecumenical-minded Catholics and appalled Jewish leaders...