Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need or interest to work with undergraduate subjects. In the broad sense, however, it is fitting and natural that the Harvard intellectual community be the first to grapple with this new philosophic and practical issue and that the University of William James be given the first chance to accept or reject the educational potentialities of consciousness-expanding drugs...
...majority of the new college will go to junior colleges and state universities that are required to accept qualified candidates, the College Board continued...
...professes to be one and has not embraced another religion. That definition would include the Orthodox Jew that Oswald Rufeisen was at birth; but it excludes Father Daniel, the Carmelite friar that Rufeisen became after his conversion to Catholicism. Since his arrival in 1959, Father Daniel has refused to accept citizenship except as a Jewish immigrant, and thus automatically an Israeli citizen under the 1950 Law of Return...
...what am I? I did not accept Christianity to leave my people. It added to my Judaism. I feel...
...heart, he seeks to know the secret of the universe, striving, in the same moment, to destroy the neutral, unresponsive "whiteness" of all that is impervious to man. Like all great tragic heroes, Ahab dies in the glory and blasphemy of a rebellious pride that will not accept a universe that is not man-centered. And since the tragic hero bears with him the stifled rebellion of lesser men, his death is awesomely like a crucifixion...