Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cranium of F. L. Seidel, himself a great Advocate critic a couple of years ago, a man than which there was no meaner Martini mixer. Experience becomes instinct, and criticism is much easier than it looks: reject stories written by those who are not your friends, particularly unwashed people; accept stories containing delectable bons mots in foreign languages, the more exotic the better. How to pick poetry is a more complex problem: obey your nose and judge the poet on the basis of his fragrance...
...Commons last week, Macmillan dramatically announced that he and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd would fly off to Moscow Feb. 21 for a ten-day state visit. In Paris Macmillan's decision aroused grumbles that this was an odd time for a British Prime Minister to decide to accept an invitation which the Soviets first extended to Sir Anthony Eden 2½ years ago. But U.S. leaders raised not a peep. Having just played host to Mikoyan, they were scarcely in a position to complain. And they felt no need...
...week's end, six schools-Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Antioch, Princeton, Swarthmore and Reed-had refused to accept money under the act. Other schools are accepting funds but protesting the oaths. Presidents Nathan Pusey of Harvard and A. Whitney Griswold of Yale praised Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Arthur Flemming for criticizing the oaths, and Griswold wrote: "In our eyes, such measures are at best odious symbols, at worst a potential threat to our profession . . . Belief cannot be coerced or compelled." Other institutions whose heads object to the provision: Colby, Bates, Bowdoin, the University of Wisconsin and Atlanta...
Only one set of officers will now be needed to manage the orchestra, which has been 50 per cent female for several years. By voting to accept a revised constitution which allows Radcliffe membership in the Pierian sodality, the H.R.O. changed a 150-year tradition of the Sodality, strictly a male organization since its inception...
...House Rent Adjustment Fund, abolished nine days ago, has been re-established as official College policy, sources in the Administration stated yesterday. Last week, the Masters of the Houses decided to accept funds provided by the Corporation to equalize rents of roommates with different abilities...