Word: accept
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...University now conducts its affairs demonstrates clearly that the faculty and the governing boards really care little whether Harvard's structure is as sound as its educational policy. It is, of course, not outrageous that Massachusetts' largest corporation has incredible red-tape. But for an academic community to accept Harvard's present state as inevitable is dangerous and foolish; it is like saying that the impersonality of the lecture system is a fact of life that cannot be surmounted. The University must seek to perfect its educational administration just as it seeks to perfect--or improve--its educational policy. (What...
...government to deal with Salan. The F.L.N. was reported ready to 1 ) recognize the "quasi-permanent'' nature of several French military bases in Algeria, 2) concede that Algeria's economic future is linked to France and that the departure of the entire European population would be catastrophic, and 3) accept that the presence of some French armed forces in Algeria, even after the ceasefire, will contribute to peace...
Last week Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Mortimer Caplin indicated that he was tiring of the Medici role. Henceforth, he declared, his field agents would insist that all appraisals on donated works of art would have to conform to realistic market value. Warned Caplin: "The service is not required to accept appraisals merely because they were prepared by 'expert appraisers...
...accept the I.C.I, terms, the ensuing takeover will create the tenth largest industrial complex in the world and the second largest outside the U.S.,* with assets of $3 billion, 162,000 employees in Britain and more than 52,000 abroad. The combined company would control some 25% of Britain's production of paint, more than 50% of its plastic film, and 90% of its output of man-made fibers. Overseas the firm would do business through a maze of satellites in 40 countries, including a $10 million Courtaulds viscose plant near Mobile, Ala., chemical companies in six South American...
...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is the best: but not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic it may sometimes be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret...