Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...together again. Between the two center groups, said Faure, "there is no real opposition on the big problems." His proposition: "a temporary union" of left-and right-wing moderates. The right-wingers let it be known that Mendès was anathema to them, but hinted that they might accept a Socialist like Mollet or Christian Pineau for Premier...
Back to the Bible. The new Israel strives obsessively for the forms and spirit of national unity. So far Israel's citizens have been unable to agree on a constitution, because the dominant Socialists refuse to accept rabbinical sway in the state. With only 20% of the population Orthodox, religion has not proved a cementing force. Because rabbis exercise absolute control over marriage and divorce laws, some Israelis have already found a Reno in Cyprus. Israel's state-owned trains do not run on the Sabbath, and the citizen who drives his private car through Orthodox districts...
Asked whether he would accept a Vice-Presidential nomination, Kefauver said, "I am not interested in the second spot. All my eggs are in one basket...
...should come to terms with the American theater. Expressing a point of view distant not only in time from the crusading days of his '39 Harvard thesis on future poetic drama in America, he followed a line of compromise. It seemed to him imperative that a playwright accept the theater of his day. An unproduced playwright is no playwright he argued, challenging someone to name a writer "discovered" after his death when his plays never reached an audience during his lifetime...
...Senator was very pleased to accept the invitation of the "Kefauver for President" Club, Donnelly explained, "because he takes a great interest in the youth of America's participation in politics and in their future responsibilities in the government of the country...