Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order of business at the Episcopalians' triennial general convention, most of the excitement in St. Louis had been generated by Bishop Pike. A onetime lawyer with a well-tested flair for infuriating conventional Episcopalians with his unconventional views, Pike declared in a sermon in St. Louis that to accept "historically conditioned" doctrines as eternal truths is nothing but "well-intentioned idolatry." One such doctrine is the Trinity, said Pike, since the meaning of the terms used to express it-three persons in one nature-has changed so much over the centuries that Christians now seem to be defending tritheism...
...week by both military brass and defense-industry businessmen as a result of a new directive (Amended #137.5 (a) Gratuities) by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's command post. The directive, which replaces the individual judgment by which officers have hitherto been allowed to operate, specifically forbids them to accept not only gifts and gratuities but that pillar of modern U.S. society, the expense-account lunch. "This thing is absurd," says Louisiana Congressman F. Edward Hebert. "It means officers can't accept a Coke or a ham sandwich. It says in effect that an admiral can be bribed...
...symbolic irony, the new rule takes effect the day before Thanksgiving. A free load will still be permitted in some cases, of course. An officer may lunch at a defense plant, where it would be impossible for him to pay, or he or a relative may accept a memento advertising a defense product. The penalty for the latter is considerable bother, since it involves a detailed report to the Pentagon within 48 hours, even if the report is only about that model airplane that a manufacturer gave to Junior. Reason: "Favors, gratuities, or entertainment bestowed upon members of the immediate...
While some sheiks haggle like bazaar veterans for the extra half-percent interest that is paid for whopping deposits (top: 7%), a few devout Moslems refuse to accept any interest at all on their oil millions. In Beirut's amazingly liquid and fast-moving money market, the bankers quickly pump their funds into short-term loans at up to 12%, finance everything from Pakistani exports and Saudi imports to local ski resorts and new cars. They seek to combine security with the plump profits of quick turnover, shun long-term credits or collateral-free personal loans...
...dwelt on death and suicide: "There is only one path out of the steamy dense jungle where the battle is fought over glory and power and advantage. And that is-to accept death." And he luridly describes several suicides he witnessed (or imagined?), such as the beautiful girl who drowned herself and was washed ashore on a river bank, "beyond all human nakedness in the inaccessible solitude of death-her white firm breasts are lifted to the sunlight-a heroic torso of marble-blond stone in the soft grass...