Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will hold the attention of his audience, Welles departs somewhat from the imagery of the book. Kafka created an atmosphere of horror by contrasting the strangeness of what happens to Joseph K. with the ordinariness of his surroundings, the matter-of-fact way all the characters, even K. himself, accept the fact that K. has been arrested but not charged. Welles creates an eerie world by changing the world itself, instead of relying solely on manipulating people and events. He uses the tools of his medium--sets, lighting, the motion of the camera--in his attempt to convey concretey, visually...
...Robert Kennedy defends the forced integration of public accommodations on the grounds that it is morally right, yet millions who believe that mixing of the races is morally wrong will not accept that the office of Attorney General confers the authority to establish morals...
...hopes of avoiding both of these alternatives, Kennedy put forward a surprising and dubious proposal. He urged the two sides to accept Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, former Secretary of Labor, as the arbitrator, with both management and the unions agreeing in advance to accept Goldberg's verdict as final. Meeting with the management and union representatives at the White House, Kennedy asked them to consider the proposal overnight. He then slipped into his office and asked that Firemen's President Gilbert be sent in for a private talk. Smiling gently, Gilbert listened to the President...
...report to the President, the Rosenman board in effect upholds the Rifkind-commission findings. The railroads accept the Rosenman recommendations. The unions reject them. At the urging of the Administration, the two sides resume negotiations, this time in Washington...
...words themselves. Mommy blithely, unfeelingly, says, "Our long night is over. We must put away our tears, take off our mourning ... and face the future. It's our duty." Against these surfaces without substance, this ritual without meaning, stands the vitality of Grandma who, in the end, must accept the help of the vacuous young man, the angel of death...