Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Urging the United States to accept the offer of the U.S.S.R. to 'negotiate on Berlin...
Even the "ever-brilliant" Pauline Kael points out that Antonioni finds it possible to "accept the socialist criticism of society without endorsing the socialist remedy." Well, even Homer nods, and Miss Kael, one perceives, has her off days...
Even as a phenomenon for study, institutionalized religion did not attract James. Religious experience, he felt, should be first-hand, vital, and the remedy for otherwise incurable maladies of the soul. "At bottom the whole concern of both morality and religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe. Do we accept it only in part and grudgingly, or heartily and altogether?" Assuredly the moralist assents to the reigning order, but he may endure it with "the heaviest and coldest heart, and never cease to feel it as a yoke." The religious man, on the other hand...
...upperclassmen found the freshmen in the Yard quite unwilling to accept greater freedom. While Yardlings watched cautiously from windows, a quickly formed, efficient police not ushered the group of about 150 out the Lamont gate...
...Goodman's dismay, literature has followed this same asocial pattern. Fictional characters either accept their social roles and concentrate on their personal lives (James Gould Cozzens), or they withdraw from society and lead the life of the beat, the hip, or the drugged...