Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have never quite learned to accept the American attitude that will condemn and publicly degrade a man who has devoted himself to years of conscientious public service, and then invoke the myth of guilt by association to question the private morality of an entire Administration...
...shotguns. Living up to these expectations, Cesari offered no resistance and, as Lavalette remembered the dialogue, declared solemnly: "Monsieur, permit me to offer you my hand so that I may congratulate you and your men on your job. C'était formidable.'" Replied Lavalette: "Man cher, I accept your congratulations, and I extend you my own. Thanks to you, I have accomplished the most beautiful affair that one could imagine...
...away the past and replacing it by a mathematically symmetrical new order; and they were doing this in the name of 'nature.' Burke managed to throw 'nature' back into the teeth of its French disciples. It is 'natural,' he argued, for men to accept tradition, to be unequal, to be religious, to be respectful to their betters. The noble rustic or savage are exploded myths; rustics and savages merely turn out to be ignoble in ways somewhat different from...
Dietz did not notify his candidates in advance of their nomination, he said, because he doubted they could then remain independent in his struggle with the Coop. Most of the surprised candidates explained that they were too busy to accept a directorship...
...whether he likes it or not, whether he deserves it or not the award is his; and Sartre, unfortunately knows it. He has been labeled (God forbid), and it is only an act of pretension to deny that it has meaning and not to have the humility to accept this fact. Why must the absurd standards he sets for himself be our standards for judging his work? If he is only writing for him self, why does he publish? Presumably there is more involved; in which case it is absurd to pretend that he does not hear public opinion...