Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More Time. Having eschewed right-wing, fascist forms-the neo-Nazis have virtually vanished-yet not quite grown accustomed to the democratic freedom they have so newly learned, the young, like their elders, accept the good life as an acceptable god on earth. A whole new generation of German writers is angry about German materialism. "Money is the lowest common denominator in all the pyramids of the West German social order," says Rudolf Leonhardt in his X Mai Deutsch land. "If anybody leads, it is the businessmen; there is no national purpose beyond the maintenance of prosperity...
...disclaimers, the Pentagon's Gilpatric was right when he described Western defense policy as "entering a new phase." This is evident in East-West relations: Washington seems determined to pursue a détente with Moscow, and the Kremlin, beset by economic and Chinese troubles, seems willing to accept at least a cold war pause. The "new phase" is even more sharply evident in the increasingly outdated design of NATO, whose members are deeply split over the philosophy and practice of Western defense. The whole structure of the Western Alliance is being reexamined, and may be revised...
Composed of 15 members from 15 different nations, the court has no troops, no policemen, no marshals to enforce its decisions. It is set up to judge disputes between nations, but it can function only if the litigants are willing to accept its jurisdiction. Under the Connally Amendment (named after Tom Connally, former U.S. Senator from Texas), the U.S. reserves the right to determine whether it will let any case involving the U.S. be taken before the World Court. Yet the court wields great moral authority...
When Sir John Barbirolli came west to accept the baton of the Houston Symphony Orchestra three years ago, Texans proudly proclaimed "The Grand Alliance." An emblem was struck for the orchestra depicting the Lone Star flag shoulder-to-shoulder with Sir John's Union Jack, and by happy coincidence Harold Macmillan himself said what was on everyone's lips: "Friendship between Texas and Great Britain is a most important thing." The orchestra celebrated its 50th year last week with a gala concert on the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, and Sir John felt properly Nelsonian: "This...
...were more or less relevant to reality. The task of the philosopher was to take sympathetic note of all of them, discriminate among them, but never fall into the trap of believing any one exclusively. Santayana loved the spiritual discipline of Roman Catholicism, for instance, but he did not accept its doctrines as ultimate truth. "We must see heaven in the midst of earth, just above it, accompanying earth as beauty accompanies it. We must not try to get heaven pure, afterwards, or instead...