Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Folger's theatrical debut offered a pointed aside on the National Theater's decision last summer to abandon plays and show movies, rather than accept Actors' Equity's ruling that Negroes must not be barred from the audience. Julius Caesar sold tickets to all applicants, had a sprinkling of Negro customers-and not a hint of a fuss...
...Germany is to make sure that "these people" do try to drive this car, and to promote in them a desire to drive it, with or without accidents . . . And if we are going to make them accept democracy, we will have to "coerce" them to accept it, Hitler fashion, for to date they laugh at our methods of presentation...
...Moscow, Foo Ping-sheung, China's ambassador to Russia, pondered a telegram last week. It announced his appointment as Premier Ho Ying-chin's new foreign minister. Asked if he would accept, Foo said: "Wouldn't it be like jumping into the fire? ... I think people live longer in New Zealand...
...Book" is not merely an accurate dissection of a specific school; it is a challenge to the teachers of America. "Was it perhaps that all these people who called themselves custodians of education were merely spineless dolls with the guts of sawdust, living in pretense because they refused to accept life as it was? Was it that those who called themselves teachers were merely playing politics on an enclosed checkerboard and parroting the thoughts of the Dead Great because it gave them a vicarious importance and authority? Did America perhaps justly laugh at her teachers and humiliate them because they...
...Formal Education. Johnny Groth has always been a good ballplayer, but until four years ago his game was football. At Chicago Latin School, Johnny was a triple-threat halfback, but never spent much time at baseball. The Navy nabbed him before he could decide which college football scholarship to accept, and sent him to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station...