Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wise mother who calls her five-year-old daughter's artificial hand "the hooker," and wants the child to accept it as that. See MEDICINE, Giving Hope...
...Governor of Puerto Rico, architect of the island's life-giving Operation Bootstrap and its unique commonwealth status, was stepping aside after four terms (16 years) in office. He would not, he insisted, be his party's gubernatorial candidate in the Nov. 3 elections. He would accept nomination for the senate, whence he came, but nothing more. "You must have confidence in yourselves," he pleaded. "You have honored me as a leader and as a teacher, and now the teacher says: 'It is time to return to the class.' " No sooner had Muñoz finished...
...Binghamton Sun-Bulletin, a New York State daily of 30,000 circulation, "we have endorsed every Republican nominee for President since the party was founded in 1856." But confronted with the Republican Party's 1964 presidential choice, the Sun-Bulletin ran out of enthusiasm altogether: "We cannot accept the ideas, the philosophy or the purposes of Senator Barry M. Goldwater." The Sun-Bulletin's editorial went on to label Goldwater "a reckless and irresponsible man temperamentally unfitted for the presidency." With that, the paper broke its 108-year record of party loyalty by lining up behind the candidacy...
Good Burglary Weather. Kamisar notes that the Supreme Court long permitted states to accept or reject the "exclusionary rule," based on the Fourth Amendment, which bans evidence obtained by unreasonable search and seizure. As a result, police were free to operate without search warrants wherever and whenever they thought it desirable. In most states that meant most places most of the time...
...Carlos Sansegundo, 34, is an expatriate who recently married an American and hopes to become a U.S. citizen. He is a Basque, a former sculptor who now paints romantic embroidery to pop art. "Spanish art is dead," says Sansegundo. "The Spanish are too proud. They will not accept what other countries are doing. I think it has killed art." He is quite happy, however, to show his work in the World's Fair pavilion...