Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should the others in the group should love him. The boy did not love these people. They were not his kind; he did not want to spend his life with them. He could see the horror of their lives, he felt sorry for them, he could even accept them, but he could not love them...
Despite all of this, upsetting as it may be, they wait, hoping against hope that they "have not been picked out simply to be abandoned, set loose to find their own way." They accept their deaths calmly, hopefully. ("Well, we'll know better next time.") In this hint of optimism, there is perhaps hope for surviving in a world in which "we drift through time, clutching at straws." And, when Stoppard shows us part of Hamlet's final scene, the English Ambassador's pronouncement "that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead" elicits the audience realization that death may be the only...
Despite the Biology Department's decision Wednesday to accept four upper-level courses to fulfill lower-level requirements, students still can't find enough courses to take...
Picking up a phone, he checked with the commanders of Spain's seven military districts. All but one demanded that a state of emergency be declared-and the one exception, Barcelona's leader, said he would accept nothing less than a return to full military rule. Armed with this information, Carrero consulted the three military ministers and proceeded to draw up the emergency decree. Bypassing the Cabinet's liberals, Carrero then went directly to Franco and convinced the generalissimo that the declaration was vital. Next day, at the regular weekly Cabinet meeting, Franco ordered that the decree...
...most expensive in Broadway history--would be a sure flop unless more radical changes could be made, producer Cohen decided to postpone the opening indefinitely, with all performances in New York designated as "previews" until he considered Dear World ready for an opening before critics. While critics accept this practice of previews as an addition to the road tryout period, they could not abide by Cohen's plan to play the unfinished show into the distant future before paying audiences. Several of the first-nighters threatened to show up at the show unannounced one night and write reviews...