Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principle of an oligarchy. The Daily Princetonian, on the other hand, is a sort of comradely dictatorship. Consider, for example, the matter of editorial policy. At 14 Plympton St. a topic which seems likely to arouse controversy inside the paper, such as whether or not the University should accept NDEA loans, or build bomb shelters, is discussed in a board meeting, where heated argument lasting as long as an hour often precedes the selection of a policy, by majority vote...
...Peace Corps program in serious jeopardy in America or in Nigeria, is has indirectly increased several dangers. Any meaningful understanding between people of different cultures would seem to require that both display within the limitations of tact, a certain openness about their own values; that they be able to accept and understand another way of life without at the same time sacrificing their own cultural identity. There is a possibility that the Michelmore episode will cause Peace Corps members to become overly afraid that they will offend someone by simply being themselves. And any attempt to be otherwise will inevitably...
...mind, the city school superintendent is right who said he was in the education business and should not become involved in attempts to correct the consequences of voluntary segregated housing. It would be far better for those who are agitating for the deliberate mixing of children to accept de facto segregated schools as a consequence of a present housing situation and to work for the improvement of slum schools whether Negro or white...
Christians, says McCord, should accept the new age as a gift of God. "What is needed is 'Christians who remain Christians,' to use a phrase of Albert Camus, In a powerful essay in his posthumously published Resistance, Rebellion, and Death, Camus exclaims: 'What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out loud and clear; for between the forces of terror and the forces of dialogue, a great unequal battle has begun.' Notice his grouping, the forces of dialogue, men who acknowledge other men as persons, against the forces of terror...
...have never," Hindus writes, "encountered any young Soviet citizens, workers or intellectuals, who question collective ownership of the 'means of production.' They accept the Soviet economy without reservations, and I am certain they would battle against any movement to overthrow it. They know nothing else, and to them the term 'capitalism' spells depravity and damnation." They fight only to buy more books, to write about day to day problems rather than about the romance of building Socialism, and to wear lipstick and play jazz...