Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need not accept the Madison Avenue glamorization of domestic details like scrubbing pots nor reject the encouraging trend of returning to a career. But in taking advantage of the opportunities for a career, the Radcliffe girl need not deny the important opportunities open to the housewife. Although it may not need the academic abilities required by an English paper, cooking a good meal demands imagination and skill. Planning a party may not test the intelligence expected in a chemistry experiment, but it does require an acute understanding of people. Raising children may not benefit from a textbook knowledge of their...
...seems unlikely, however, that the party's more liberal wing will calmly accept the former vice-president. Most of its leaders have ambitions of their own, and their fight for the party's future is too serious to trust to the compromising Nixon. His attack on Governor Rockefeller and the Governor's reply ("This kind of peevish post-election utterance has unfortunately become typical of Mr. Nixon") signal a basic split...
...never consider the percentage of public and private school girls before the entire class has been selected," they have declared, maintaining that they accept girls purely on individual merits...
...sets and lights of Mahala Woolridge, plain and reserved, are unobtrusively fine. And realizing the financial problems of the non-profit Theatre Company of Boston, one can sympathetically accept the limitations of Mary Shepley's monotonously simple, cheezy costumes. It's a bit harder, however, to dismiss some lousy makeup work, most apparent when Karlen enters looking more like a trick-or-treater than a battered Caligula...
...influx of girls would "certainly cause a change in the intellectual life" of Harvard men, Rouben A. Brower, Master of Adams House, observed. He said he had gotten "more cold feet" after listening to this and other points raised at the committee meeting Wednesday. But he might accept one night of Harvard-Radcliffe interhouse a weak, he added...