Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with my position on Viet Nam or to send him a statement declaring that I am wholly opposed to the presence of marines in Santo Domingo . . . Mr. Johnson is not simply this country's principal policymaker. He is an institution. When he invites me to Washington, I accept in order to show my respect for his intentions and to honor his high office. I am sure that he does not expect me to accept every policy and action of his Administration together with the invitation...
...many-and perhaps especially among those whose concern is for ideas and ideals, and those whose hope is primarily for peace and progress-a reluctance to give full weight to the role of power and its necessity in the world's affairs, a reluctance to recognize and accept this element in the affairs...
...Phan Huy Quat precipitated a squabble with South Viet Nam's wispy Chief of State, Phan Khac Suu, by announcing his long-delayed Cabinet reshuffle. Quat replaced the Ministers of Interior and Economy with "northerners," and Suu, who was born in the southern Mekong Delta region, refused to accept the switch...
Worth the Labor. That the Czechs heard Celibidache at all was no small achievement. A man of passionate convictions who "would rather starve" than give an imperfect performance, Celibidache has become an artist in self-imposed exile. While other guest conductors accept three rehearsals as sufficient preparation for a concert, Celibidache demands at least ten. He has been known, for example, to spend six rehearsals perfecting Webern's Variations for Orchestra, a work that lasts less than six minutes. The musicians who have worked under him agree that the result is worth all the painstaking labor. Says Cellist Gregor...
Christian renewal, the United Presbyterians believe, includes "the right and duty of a living church to restate its faith from time to time." Last week, in Columbus, Ohio, commissioners (delegates) to the church's 177th General Assembly voted 643 to 110 to accept in principle their first new creed since the Westminster Confession...