Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...different points of view to be reconciled . . . We have differences in the valuation of purposes, if you like ... The main thing to consider is to discover, isn't it? The course of discovery is very important, and what is more, we have found that it is better to accept people for what they say ... The impression that has been generally gained ... is that the general changes or improvements, or whatever you like to call them, in Soviet Russia have more than a temporary character...
Malraux cannot, though all his life long he has wistfully acknowledged its power for others. "Certainly there is a higher faith: that proclaimed by all the village crosses," he wrote. "It is love, and peace is in it. I will never accept it; I will never bow to ask of it the peace to which my weakness beckons...
Malraux found man's greatness to be defiance of man's fate. The real defeat was "having to accept one's destiny, one's place in the world, to feel shut up in a life there's no escaping, like a dog in a kennel." The drive to "at last attain something beyond, something outside himself" is Malraux's "warrant for release from man's estate." "If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?" demands Malraux...
...Administration wants to renew the Defense Production Act, which authorizes the employment of businessmen "without compensation," called WOCs in Potomac slang. (They are the latter-day successors of the famed dollar-a-year men, but receive not even the dollar since Congress in 1950 authorized the Government to accept the services of individuals without compensation...
...would take in Negroes. Even when Kentucky's Day Law of 1904 specifically forbade the practice, Berea remained faithful to its trust. It dipped into its meager savings and with $400,000 started the Lincoln Institute to take care of those whom until 1950 it could not legally accept...