Word: accept
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...isness of life." The speaker was a lecturer at the Christian Faith and Life Community, a training center for undergraduate students of the University of Texas at Austin. His woebegone view of things, he warned, should not lead to despair but to Christian salvation. The man willing to accept "what is ugly and cruel and guilty as well as the contrary" is receiving Christ's message, and discovers that "this is the way it is, I am not what I thought I was, but I can live with my guilt." To hear this unorthodox theology, ministers from university campuses...
Nothing Automatic. In the light of these figures, most economists-and some businessmen-accept Dillon's thesis that Administration policy is not fostering inflation. Says Vice President Tilford C. Gaines of Chicago's First National Bank: "There is nothing automatically inflationary if the federal budget is in debt." But though they see no inflation in prospect, a number of economists point out that deficits in the administrative budget nonetheless have a damaging psychological effect-especially abroad. Says Columbia University's Professor Raymond J. Saulnier, former chairman of Dwight Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers: "Deficits tend...
...Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams. Four desperate people at rope's end find the strength to live beyond despair and accept their torturous lot. Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle award as best play of the year...
...kidding, we're serious. There is an elephant race next week in California. We want to enter a Harvard elephant. Today is the crucial day. We must accept our option on the four-ten, 11-feet Jumbo mammal Senita or relinquish her to the barbariane of Yale or Washington State. Gall KI 7-2211 today with pledges for the Harvard Elephant Fund. This could be the sports event of the sixties...
...accordingly. The question was then the rostrum from which it should be delivered. Two or three suggestions were made, and then the Secretary remembered that he had been invited to receive a Harvard degree and that seemed a highly suitable occasion. He therefore indicated that he would like to accept and of course was welcome...