Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lies with the greatest directors of stage and film to alter this condition. Their work has about it a quality of uncanny generosity: to see a production like Peter Brook's King Lear or Welles's Falstaff is to accept a curious gift, a tarnished childhood treasure rescued from our own neglect, scoured and polished by the agency of personal vision...
Harvard's new Visual Studies Department has reversed itself and decided not to accept student transfers from the existing Architectural Sciences Department...
...many such communities, the good citizens of Tarbox accept health, wealth and wisdom as natural perquisites of their membership in the American middle class. Tarbox is a fun place too. Almost any Sunday, one can find a bunch of the fellows tossing around a basketball in somebody's driveway, while the women chat and watch and the children scramble and squabble. There's likely to be a spirited game of tennis at John and Bernadette Ong's place, followed by a few tall, cold vodka-and-tonics perhaps at Matt and Terry Gallagher's. The women...
...Scandal. During the past few years, Ipswich has at last been taking over from Shillington as the prod to Updike's imagination, and his short stories have abandoned their boyhood themes and begun to examine the years of his maturity. Like Piet Hanema struggling to accept his God, Updike has suffered doubts...
...competing for the right to sell Fannie Mae loans at some future time. Thus the private market will set the price, or discount, while FNMA controls the volume of its business probably $40 to $50 million a week.' For loans on new or used houses, the association will accept bids to deliver mortgages within either three or six months. For houses yet to be started, it will accept mortgages to be delivered within a year-a condition that will enable builders to erect subdivisions without gambling on the future cost of financing. "The more flexible we are, the more...