Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...While Reardon says he's "not thrilled" with the feds telling him how to run his business, he adds that many colleges aren't doing anything at all. Without strict regulations, he fears, nothing will happen. But people at Notre Dame, says Readon, "will go to jail" before they accept the new proposals...
...provocative, like his argument, in the form of a logical proof, that nuclear war is inevitable. Or they can be simply naive, like his call for slashing the size of government in favor of personal generosity and an ill-defined international "justice movement." But one need not accept all Gofman's opinions to leave his book with a terrible new sense that something is happening out there--and you do know what it is, don't you, Mr. Jones...
Although some experts have said Stonehenge's builders could predict solar eclipses by making observations from certain positions near the main ring, Gingerich said he is reluctant to accept such a theory. Even though eclipses can be roughly predicted with the stone formation, ancient peoples may not have observed this fact or understood the phenomenon, he added...
...crazy before he shot Louise and put two bullets in his own head? These questions do not provoke thoughtful analysis into the very nature and definition of madness but rather confuse and eventually annoy the audience. If Bouvier was a lovable fool, dispensing wisdom in nonsense, perhaps one could accept this non-clarification as an indictment of our rigid society. But Bouvier is no gentle Aesop. Tramping from village to village with his accordion, he stops at various points to rape and dismember twelve children...
Perhaps worse, department heads nonchalantly accept their colleagues' blatant evasion of tutorial responsibility. Without exception, they admit they have not considered how they might enforce the regulations in the future. One wonders why the Faculty devoted so much of their precious committee time to disputing the fine points of the legislation when they had no intention of obeying the basic premise of the reforms...