Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offered a fresh compromise, giving the Freedom Party two at-large seats on the floor. Under intense Presidential pressure, New York and California, the core of the FDP's support, agreed to the proposal. In a hurried caucus of the Freedom delegation, Rauh and King urged the Party to accept the compromise and hail it as a great victory...
Some courses, however, including Natural Sciences 5, Humanities 5, and Humanities 6, will not accept applications for admittance until their first meeting next week...
...nationalism popular at Harvard has its most significant roots in emotional needs--and often these are needs produced by the Harvard environment itself. "Many students who accept black nationalism," said Archie C. Epps, teaching fellow in Middle Eastern Studies, "do so because of their experience at Ivy League schools. They go to the same classes with you, they dress the same. But Negroes feel they cannot become part of the life at Harvard on the weekends or even at night. Some of them don't think they can have friends here. Maybe they go down to Elsie...
...think the change is for the good. "Which is preferable," asks a German travel agent, "the grotesque, quasi-colonialist old-style tourists, or the traveling beatniks, who bum their way from city to city, sing folk songs and pass the hat in real and phony artists' dives, and accept any job that will subsidize their tours?" Any Parisian who caught the act along the Rue Scribe this summer would be hard put to make the choice. Daily, the area around American Express headquarters swarmed with disheveled U.S. youths who were so desperate for a hitchhike that they stuck...
Losses & Winnings. There are many reasons for his losing, Snow suggests. Quaife tried too much, too fast, too young. He advanced his policy (which Snow clearly thinks is good and has in fact been urging publicly for years) a decade too early for a party still reluctant to accept the meaning and the political consequences of the 1956 Suez Canal crisis. There was a hint of scandal over a mistress. He was sandbagged by civil servants, deserted by a key Tory supporter grown jealous of his success. But in the end, Narrator Eliot makes clear, there was no one reason...