Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restoring him to Congress last week, the House deprived him of his seniority and meted out a $25,000 fine for his past sins as the price of forgiveness.* (He has already forfeited $55,000 in congressional pay.) The resolution gave him until Jan. 15 to decide whether to accept the terms...
Sympathetic Smile. Such behavior indicates a considerable dependence on the complicity of the audience, which is expected to accept the performance at its face rather than at its true value. In considerate society, the audience seldom lets the performer down-in part, as Goffman repeatedly notes, because the roles of performer and audience interlock. A man rushing for the bus dons a sheepish smile to indicate his awareness of how silly he looks. His observers reward his performance-that is, the smile-by smiling sympathetically back. With this response, they become performers, and the bus chaser becomes the audience...
...immediate death, he argues, men persist in believing in the future and find in that hope a source of courage for the most self-sacrificing acts. "Empirical reason indicates that this hope is an illusion," Berger admits, and he stands in respectful awe of the stoic who can accept this fact without flinching. Yet most men are not stoics and still continue to hope, so unabashed in their rejection of death that there must be some final justification of their confidence in a transcendent reality...
...clear, however, that our supposed childishness is anything more than our response to a debased liberalism. Dean Ford finds the source of our "destructiveness" in the tradition of Voltaire's "ecrasez l'infame." I think he would be more accurate to recognize our debt to Rousseau's refusal to accept the false culture Voltaire proposed--through D'Alembert--to introduce into Geneva. For I detect in Dean Ford's article an unwillingness to consider seriously the possibility that much of bourgeois culture and much of the culture of the university is fraudulent. I find such a stance as blind...
Wood is expected to announce today at a news conference in Washington that he will accept the nomination made by the Presidents of the two universities and an Administrative committee...