Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...image stinks," Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Francis X. Sargent (who owns a sporting goods store) told the group at the end of the convention. He urged them to accept the Administration's bill, rather than risking the introduction of more stringent legislation. For his pains, he was labeled "a political gun bearer for the Kennedys and the Dodds" by the NRA President...
COONRADT here is both defining the personality of his character and attempting to undermine the audience's tendency to accept an all-too-conventional reality. Even the beautifully photographed, frequently superimposed dream sequences are at first expressionistic, as we expect film-dreams to be, then increasingly mechanical and artificial, Coonradt demonstrating that Jane's reality is imposed by the camera and the way the director moves it. The last sequence, a magnificent three-minute series of near-identical close-ups of Jane, serves as a direct confrontation of actress-character and director-alter ego. Coonradt projects himself through Jane...
Scholarships totaling approximately $950,000 have been awarded to 580 of the 4200 applicants for financial aid. Eighty-seven per cent of those--about 500--are expected to accept...
Democratic governors will meet this afternoon in St. Louis, and the Southerners will present their strategy for supporting Humphrey. Their biggest problem will be to fashion a civil rights stand which they can support but which their candidate will accept. The conference might show that the South is not solidly behind Humphrey. If the governors feel that Kennedy is too far ahead, they might decide to forget HHH and push Texas Governor John Connally for Vice-President...
...though medically deferred, to try to force prosecution individually, as did Dr. Spock and Rev. Coffin, or to leave the country. Unless and until I decide to take either of these courses, I feel I should not in the slightest encourage a student to face them. The decision to accept the alternatives to induction is a private and lonely one. The individual may have to spend five years of his life in prison or leave the country permanently. He may find little comfort in the thought that a large number of Harvard's Faculty believe he made a noble choice...