Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newsman who has covered Geneva since 1947 says that habitual attendance at East-West conferences results in a tendency to accept the arguments of both sides: "You come to think that the Russians object to controls because they want to cheat, and the West insists on controls because they want to spy in Russia. You reach the conclusion that everybody is equally wrong...
...manners themselves are still an issue, they are a different set of manners for an increasingly classless society. Where once it mattered how to present a visiting card, now the question is how a guest in evening dress should handle barbecued chicken. Though contemporary society neither needs nor would accept such an absolute authority as Emily Post, it does welcome some guidelines, and since Mrs. Post died two years ago, the unquestioned chief guider has been Amy Vanderbilt, 54, an energetic latter-day member of the genuine Vanderbilt clan...
...catch comes in the admission of this definition. In order to accept it one would have to admit a whole set of terms, "learned words," "verbal connections," "inspiration phase," and doubtless many others. Then words like "passionate," "creativity," and "courage" are invoked to invest the whole with so thoroughly romantic a context that only the unfeeling would resist. Mr. Sollod on the other hand asserts that maybe research in this area could lead to information about phenomena which are again described in terms that presuppose all the paraphernalia of this one school of psychological thinking...
...objected to so violently was approved by Special Presidential Assistant MacGeorge Bundy, rather than by Secretary Rusk. Bundy does not have a reputation for stupidity, irresponsibility, or extremely poor judgement: one suspects that the note was purposely made offensive in order to force Diefenbaker into an explicit refusal to accept the American weapons...
Captain Vere, played so well by Ustinov, is the least comprehending yet most convincing of all. He fails to understand the law which he must invoke during wartime. He compels his three lieutenants to accept his cold interpretation of Billy's crime, though he would wish otherwise. In the trial scene, Ustinov is not caught between his feelings and society, as Vere is in Melville. Instead, Ustinov's hesitancy in convicting Budd reflects a striking inner conflict...