Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...returned to Glasgow and completed his undergraduate studies, taking the usual M.A. degree in 1920. Then he "went to Italy for a bit," but returned almost immediately to accept a lectureship at Glasgow. "I wanted to travel around some," he said, "but if you refuse a job you want you may not get offered it again. And after five years in the army you're pretty hard up. A private's pay in 1914 was a shilling...
Alexander's major critical work is Hamlet, Father and Son, published in 1955, and originally delivered as the Lord Northcliffe Lectures at University College, London. "People invite you to give a series of lectures, and what do you do? You accept. But you can't talk about bibliographical matters easily with a mixed university group." He chuckled, and said that in 1945 he had given a lecture to the British Academy on Shakespeare's punctuation...
Even so, the burden of moral proof is heavily on the disobedient to show good faith by nonviolence, meaningful protest and willingness to accept the penalty for their actions. And the basic aim is always the same as regular litigation-to get the challenged law tested by the orderly processes...
...Eastern 727 Whisper-jets and Du Pont fabrics, Muriel cigars and mink coats-and Carol Channing and her boat and bounty. Fellman insists that finding a theme to carry a tie-in is only part of his problem. The real trouble comes in persuading a brace of sponsors to accept an idea, and figuring out how much each should pay for sharing in it. In the Remington-Stetson marriage, for example, two-thirds of the $12,000 campaign was billed to Stetson, which is getting twice as much touting...
Because of the structural and magical peculiarities, the audience is asked to use uncommon imagination in the final two acts. But if it must accept the passage of sixteen years in little more than sixteen lines and suppress disbelief at a statue become woman, in the three acts (until the first intermission), it needs only to be carried along by one of the best casts assembled at the Loeb this year...