Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spent six sleep-shortened months listening to iron-tipped heels above me, a vociferous drunk next door, an elevator whose automatic door sometimes opened and closed itself at 30-second intervals all night. I learned to accept windows that had to be forced open and propped to stay open, kitchen cabinets that also had to be forced open (never to close again), lumpy kitchen linoleum, falling bathtub plaster and-ah, well, you told the rest of the story...
...much of his life, he has been either a prophet without honor in his own country or, in wartime London and Washington, a soldier armed only with honor. When his country was helpless, he repeatedly forced the world to take his inspired vision of France for the reality, to accept his own obduracy and obstruction as a show of national strength. Today, with real military strength, a robust economy, Europe's most productive agriculture, he feels that France has an even greater right to alienate allies and condescend to friends...
Although he felt the pull to Wagner and made ritualistic pilgrimages to Bayreuth, Debussy could not accept ever Wagner without a sneer. Commenting on the characters in Parsifal, he called Amfortas "that melancholy knight of the Grail, who whines like a shopgirl and whimpers like a baby." Yet traces of the Wagnerian influence remained. "But that's the whole of Parsifal,'' muttered Richard Strauss after hearing a particular passage from Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande...
...must discredit this notion. We shall invite the faithful to forget the useless pomp and ceremony of the past and to accept evangelical simplicity. Indeed, death does remind us of our fundamental equality before God." The bourgeoisie did not want to be reminded, even though Feltin is allowing a transition period of compromise ostentation. Priests in rich parishes wondered how they were going to make up for the loss of revenue that they have got from fancy weddings and funerals...
...Harvard student is asked only once during the academic year to accept any obligation for the region in which he is spending most of his time during his years of higher education. The Combined Charities Drive emphasizes at the local level two major philanthropic interests which should be of deep concern to all of us. These are the student-sponsored Phillips Brooks House with its hundreds of volunteers and the United Fund of Great-Boston with its 350 member organizations, including hospitals, Red Cross, neighborhood houses and health associations...