Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They're young, but not very passionate because passion surely implies a conviction of some sort, and these people have none. They show us that young people get themselves into trouble when they accept no responsibilities, but because no one is hurt by the time the last reel rolls around, they also show us all the good fun that ambitious American youth is missing...
...generated an emotional involvement with each other, with their girls and with their town. A baby is born, a husband may starts being faithful, a brother leaves town, a friend may sell a play he has written, but they are all still gay. One supposes they have learned to accept only the necessary responsibilities...
...mere numerical show would be akin to demagogy, especially if done in the name of civic duty. And from the truly social point of view it would amount to debasing the coinage-a poor gift to the unsuspecting students seeking our degrees and to the community that would accept them at face value...
JANUARY. Parietal hours will be reduced by the Administrative Board. They will explain, "These are hectic times." Chiang Kai-shek will accept the position of Recreation Director with the Chinese People's Republic. Tom Dewey will refuse to comment upon his future plans while his wife paints campaign buttons and he brings his golf game down to the eighties...
NOVEMBER A Cambridge Crime Commission accuses Harvard Criminoligist William McCord of being the local Mafia leader. Atomic submarine the Nautilus is destroyed by an unknown assailant. A Radcliffe senior finds a pot of gold at rainbow's end and walks away from it. "I don't accept presents from a strange Man." The Brattle Theater purchases Radio City...