Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than Mrs. Lindbergh or than you or than me. I am compelled to believe that Mrs. Lindbergh has written an offensively bad book-inept, jingling, slovenly, illiterate even, and puffed up with the foolish afflatus of a stereotyped high-seriousness, that species of aesthetic and human failure that will accept any shriek as a true high...
...from inside the Review itself. In this week's issue, Editor Cousins took over the editorial page to criticize Critic Ciardi's criticism and to extol Anne Lindbergh. "He has given literalness far more sovereignty than it needs or enjoys in verse." wrote Cousins. "Nor can we accept the adjective 'illiterate' when applied to Mrs. Lindbergh or her books. There are few living authors who are using the English language more sensitively or with more genuine appeal...
...death and the dead. This incident, they suggest, may have triggered a flight from reality in which the original personality (most closely resembling Jane) was replaced by the compulsive Eve White, while the hoydenish Eve Black served as an outlet for earthy impulses that Eve White could not accept...
...resisting the pain." His solution: a smiling figure with hands full of gold coins representing the taxpayer as he enters, another figure with empty palms outstretched for his departure. The city art committee decided it was just the touch of humor the taxpayers needed, unanimously voted to accept Kratz's bronze door handles, and had them in place as the new tax office opened for its painful but necessary business...
...case study of a modern thinker caught in a dilemma that is not confined to France or to French intellectuals. He stubbornly clings to the conviction that man is the measure of all things-the sentimental tradition of the Enlightenment. But he is far too intelligent and sensitive to accept the Enlightenment's shallow optimism and Utopian illusions about the human condition. On the other hand, he cannot move in the opposite direction towards religion. He is frozen midway. He accepts the Christian insight into the nature of evil, but rejects the rest of Christian theology. Every line...