Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article about Mrs. George Morgan [TIME, Dec. 22] and the accompanying cut is both conceived and written in extraordinarily poor taste. Your willingness to accept the evidence of a cheap Japanese novelist is right in keeping with the tradition of yellow journalism...
Above all, "Gentleman's Agreement" is a call for action that will be somewhat embarrassing to everyone except those who reject its message right from the beginning. The gentleman's agreement is a compact of silence, it says, and these who tacitly, even if unwillingly, accept anti-semitism as a part of the social system are as guilty as the active bigots. This point is made with a minimum of declamatory speeches: a burning issue has been put frankly before the eyes of the public, and the overall excellence of the movie as a movie should attract many besides...
Officials of the freshmen and upperclass photographic societies announced last night that they will accept last minute entries at the Union North Common Room this afternoon at 3 o'clock...
...picture, most of whom never suspect that Dudley's mononomenclature suggests a nether background. Here is one example of this strange mental dullness in otherwise apparently intelligent characters. The bishop, it has been established, knows what Dudley is, although he finds the concept a difficult one to accept, despite overwhelming evidence of its truth. He introduces the angel to his wife. "This is Dudley," says the bishop. "Dudley who?" says the bishop's wife. "Just Dudley," says Cary Grant, in a tone of casual mysterioso. This explanation seems to satisfy the bishop's wife for the rest of the picture...
...McNaughton had his hands full as Canada's atomic-energy specialist. Then the P.M.'s advisers proposed Dana Wil-gress, former ambassador to Russia. Just the man, the P.M. thought-until he learned that Wilgress, now at the I.T.O. meeting in Havana, was exhausted and would not accept the job. Other candidates? The P.M.'s advisers shrugged; Canada, with a young striped-pants corps, simply did not have anyone else with proper experience...