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Word: acceptable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that his undergraduate proposals appeared half-hearted, and perhaps a bit insensitively thrown-together. But while I sympathize with the HRDC's fears, and respect it for wanting to protect future undergraduates from a Loeb administrative body that might not give a damn about their needs, I can't accept their position. Robert Brustein is too fine a critic and teacher to fit into the ogre mold they've cast...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Beautiful Music Together | 1/26/1979 | See Source »

...taken lightly, and seeing them prancing around an obviously paper-mache underground temple makes one very aware that the director is faking it. The moral dilemma is an excuse for not being able to come up with a better ending, and it makes the movie very difficult to accept. If there is any sort of supernatural justice, if directors ever have to pay for exploiting old themes, for substituting self-righteous liberal indignity for imagination, then you should see Peter Weir float by any minute...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: A Thousand and One Aborigines | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Officials at the Institute of Politics, however, have said that Dukakis will not serve as a Fellow of the Institute, leaving open the possibility that he might accept a post at the Kennedy School...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Dukakis May Accept Post at Harvard | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

Former Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis may accept a teaching and administrative post at Harvard, a source close to Dukakis said last night. The source did not, however, confirm reports that Dukakis has definitely decided on Harvard, saying he is considering various offers from area universities...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Dukakis May Accept Post at Harvard | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

...unsettling way Costello at times seemed gleefully to accept and participate in the paranoia. The cover of This Year's Model featured him peering like a suspicious, hurt little boy from behind a movie camera trained on you. In "Night Rally," a song from the British edition of This Year's Model which Columbia removed from the domestic release (I wonder why?), he sings...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Elvis in 1984 | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

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