Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the youth complex. The notion of a woman of 70 setting out to find the "real me" would be ludicrous and pathetic if it were not camouflaged by Bagnold's word incense and Leighton's stage magic. What the Margaret Leighton character wants is not to accept the past but to erase it, to be 17 again with all its romantic second chances, or else to live where age enjoys the prestige of youth, symbolized by a mythical figure of her own dream world, a retired Chinese prime minister...
Sugar Merchant Henry Tate had the devil's own time getting the nation to accept his costly gift in 1890. A cruel tradition makes the Tate turn over any painting that can be defined as an old master to the National Gallery. For years, the public virtually ignored the Tate; during the 1930s the guards' first chore mornings was spinning the turnstile to build up fictitious attendance. But in the past decade the Tate has pulled ahead fast, and now, under the direction of Sir John Rothenstein, it is the largest and liveliest art museum in the British...
...Gallery and members of the stodgy Royal Academy, which had managed to be hostile in turn to Constable, Turner, Whistler, the Pre-Raphaelites, French impressionism and most everything else that subsequently mattered. "Mal à la Tate," punned a peeved Punch. At first the trustees forced the stepchild Tate to accept Victorian tearjerkers that no one will even borrow today. The Tate did not succeed in winning its complete autonomy from the National Gallery until 1955, and it had to wait till after World War II for annual government grants, still a pittance at $112,000 a year, to buy works...
Earlier, Dean Watson said he had told an officer of the AAAAS that the University viewed price differentials based on club membership as justifiable but could not accept those proposed by the club. "I will not issue a permit until this affair has been cleared up," he said...
...attempt yesterday to bail Weaver failed when Sheriff Fred N. Pickett refused to accept an offer of cash or a check in place of a bail bond. Michael D. Zurawin '65, a classmate of Weaver's in Dunster, contacted Pickett on his own initiative...