Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students must decide well in advance whether they will accept the option, Kluckhohn remarked. The time tentatively set for this decision is after return from spring vacation, and papers would be due upon the date of the final examination. Every If the plan is approved, Kluckhohn said the mid-year, exams will be given next year, as he feels students should have some experience with examinations...
...Arlington County (pop. 277,400) and 17 in Norfolk (pop. 294,300), Almond had either to propose new forms of resistance, which would surely be judged unconstitutional, or to comply. Almond's decision, imposed by his lawyer's mind on his Southern politician's emotions: accept the inevitable and the lawful, with good grace...
...typewriter, abruptly resigned as party secretary "in order to eliminate any obstacles to the indispensable work of unity." And when dismayed leaders of the Christian Democratic machine urged him to reconsider, proud Amintore Fanfani bitterly replied: "Even if I were once again named Premier, I would not accept...
...commented that much would depend on "how ecumenical the council will be, in composition and spirit." There are "enormous" possibilities for cooperation (e.g., joint action against Communist oppression, prevention of atomic warfare, the problems of Christians in non-Christian countries), "provided that the Vatican is willing to admit and accept dogmatic differences." In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury indicated that the Anglican Church would send an observer, if invited, but a spokesman for the Presbyterian Church of Scotland was dour. "We are very keen on the ecumenical movement," he said, "but not under Roman Catholic sponsorship. We want a union...
...that terrorism was justified as a means to political reform. Camus read the book at 20 ("A soul-shaking experience"). Like Dostoevsky, Camus broods about the ailment of freedom without God, about political mass murder in the name of life and the future. Although he has been unable to accept Dostoevsky's remedy (return to God and the soil), he says: "The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx...