Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Biro came to the U.S. from Hungary to accept the position of visiting professor in communications at Berkeley. She teaches a class of silent Russian films there as well as a class in film aesthetics at Stanford...
...regrettable naivete with which most Harvard students view the problem of campus security. Unfortunately, the dangers of urban life affect students as well as local residents, as the rape of two Leverett House students last month sadly demonstrates. The task of dealing with the problem requires students to accept maturely the responsibility that living together in a community implies, and to be willing to sacrifice some of the niceties of so-called college life to the necessity of self-protection...
...FAILURE of the Yale university administration to accept non-binding arbitration as a means of settling the seven week old strike by Yale's dining hall and maintenance workers demonstrates the administration's lack of concern for the workers and students affected by the strike, and a lack of faith in its own bargaining position...
...strongly in response to new ethnicity sociologists like Michael Novac, who see a retreat into ethnic culture as a valid response to the dehumanizing aspects of modern industrial society--is that industrial society is here to stay, and that the answer is not to "escape into primordiality," but to accept modernity and think about ways of shaping it. In addition, he warns the peoples of the Third World developing countries that transcendental nationalism, while a necessary credo in the process of bourgeois decolonization, shares with other forms of ethnic identification the inherent potential for reaction--that what it has given...
...book. But French is convincing, depressingly so. A reader must make a conscious and deliberate attempt to convince him or herself that French's power is not the only truth. For French ultimately serves the same purpose Val does for her friends. While she does not expect you to accept all of what she perceives, she forces you at least to consider...