Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crucial, especially since even Diem's worst enemies could not point to any real anti-Buddhist discrimination or persecution. But when government troops stupidly killed nine Buddhists in a demonstration in Hué (pronounced whey) four months ago, the Buddhists made the clearly political demand that the government accept "responsibility" for the incident. Since then, the Buddhists have developed into a serious opposition movement...
...Germans have learned to live with the Berlin Wall and the deadly, 830-mile barricade that divides the rest of their nation, on neither side have they forgotten or forgiven its existence. The most eloquent evidence of East Germans' refusal to accept Sovietization is that 16,456 of them have risked their lives and fled to the West since the Wall went up. Among them were 1,304 members of East Germany's army and police force, enough to form 13 companies. At least 65 more East Germans are known to have been killed while attempting to escape...
...Affairs, said recently: "Of course we would like to see Germany reunited, but if there were conditions of freedom in East Germany the existence of one single German state would not be absolutely necessary." Existential Philosopher Karl Jaspers created a furor by suggesting in 1960 that his countrymen must accept changes in the map of Germany as part of their liability for Hitler. Many Germans now accept his thought: "The only thing that counts is freedom. Compared with that, reunification is a matter of indifference...
...concealed anti-Communist feelings, recently cracked down (like Moscow) on its creative artists. Even circus clowns were warned to make their acts more ideological. At the same time, Communist Ruler Todor Zhivkov allowed U.S. Ambassador Eugenie Anderson to give a Fourth of July speech on television; Bulgarian diplomats now accept dinner invitations from embassy personnel. After years of stalling the U.S., Sofia finally agreed to a settlement involving more than $3,500,000 in conflicting commercial claims. Reason: Bulgaria badly wants to boost trade with the U.S., leaped at the chance to open a trade promotion office in Manhattan...
...comedy is never frivolous, though. Faulkner, in accepting his Nobel Prize, stated, "I decline to accept the end of man. I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail." Beckett is not so sure. But at least his characters do their damndest to endure...