Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...integration. For after all, what could have been more gradual than to admit one carefully chosen student as a prelude to real integration? The initial conclusion certainly seems to be that integration--whether gradual or swift--necessarily must create violence and that the South is far from ready to accept, even grudgingly, limited desegregation...
While Harvard and most other colleges remained quiet, Amherst College yesterday declined the Air Force offer which would have allowed its AFROTC unit to remain. At the same time Amherst's President Charles W. Cole revealed here-to-fore unknown conditions which the college would have to accept in order to keep its unit...
...Jaffe's role as the cool and precise master-mind of a jewel robbery is well-conceived. Jaffe is not shallow; he learns that an old man must not think about young girls, and seems quite willing to accept this sage ethic. Louis Calhern's part involves an early and unlikely double-cross from which, as far as the story goes, he never recovers. But he, too, sees his errors, commits suicide, and the Witches are all happy again. playing at being Calhern's moll, a young starlet named Marilyn Monroe in her first performance reaches the peak...
...steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet ... I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the x/rost dejected and reluctant convert in all England. I did not then see . . . the Divine humility which will accept a convert even on such terms ... a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful . . . The words com-pelle intrare, compel them to come in ... plumb the depth of the Divine mercy. The hardness of God is kinder than the soft ness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation...
Gordon has another admiring friend, a rich Socialist named Ravelston, who edits a magazine named Antichrist. Ravelston tries his best to help Gordon, but it is against Gordon's principles to accept money from the rich. He prefers to "borrow" from his impoverished sister, who has to go without food in consequence. When Ravelston bleats: "You might as well have a decent place to live in," the man-of-principle only retorts: "But I don't want a decent place. I want an indecent place...