Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dead, and neither Edward Maguire nor anybody else today is equipped to rant that cosmic role. Even by 1600 it had become passe to split the ears of the groundlings, and we who are the heirs of the methods can provide Marlowe neither with actors nor audience ready to accept him on his own terms. Still, Maguire's martial bearing and lush voice mask his inadequacies well enough to let the play move ahead without much tedium. Maguire never plumbs any of Tamburlaine's sensitivity in the great soliloquy of Act Four, nor, most disappointing of all, can he overcome...
...freedom of the city, the privilege of garrisoning Allied troops there-were not negotiable; they also agreed to discuss with the Russians some new contractual arrangement that would make those rights less subject to misinterpretation. Privately and sadly, Adenauer and Kennedy admitted that the West would have to accept the presence of The Wall as a bitter but ineradicable fact of Berlin life...
...what appears to be free competition in the bidding is not really free at all. It is now standard practice in some auction houses to set a "reserve" on each work up for sale: if the bidding does not go beyond a certain price, the auctioneer simply pretends to accept a final bid and lets the work revert to the seller without his having to pay any commission to the house. Since other potential buyers have no idea of what the reserve is, they are at a tremendous disadvantage; the price has in a sense been rigged against...
Unwilling and Unable. Yet most community mental-health clinics (usually city-or county-operated) will not accept patients who have ever been in a state hospital, Kline said. And many will not take a patient who is on drugs, because the medicine "would interfere with treatment." Moreover, many clinics have no personnel willing or even competent to prescribe or administer drugs...
...Economic Development," he said, "has cultural prerequisites." To be in a position to profit from economic aid, a country must have a widespread interest in economic development, a feeling that economic activity is worthy of respect. It must process a core of talented people willing to accept risks of innovation, and the government must have the power to carry out economic reform even when it involves temporary hardship...