Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson scorned the suggestion that he might accept the Democratic vice-presidential nomination, saying it would be "trading a vote for a gavel." Before the reconciliation, he liked to refer to Kennedy as "young Jack," said Kennedy had rolled up primary victories because "Jack was out kissing babies while I was passing bills." In the heat of battle, Johnson wasn't above rattling the long-closeted skeleton of Old Joe Kennedy's days as U.S. Ambassador to England: "I wasn't any Chamberlain umbrella policy man. I never thought Hitler was right...
...imposed from the North. He never appreciated the imperative need for legal sanction of a Negro's right to sit at a bar, get a haircut, swim in a pool. He only vaguely realized that civil rights legislation provides many a Southerner of good will the excuse to accept-quietly, if not graciously-what cannot be avoided...
Beck gave up his studies for three years, worked in advertising, teaching and sales to support his family while trying to find another prelate who would accept him. At one point, Boston's Richard Cardinal Cushing put in a bid-but, like Carroll, was turned down by the Vatican. Last year Bishop Hermann Volk of Mainz agreed to provide Beck, who speaks German, with an assignment, and Rome finally agreed...
...drastic revision of the church's general prohibition against priests with wives. Most American bishops oppose the idea of married priests, and the Vatican has made it clear that none are likely to serve in the U.S. soon. But last week Cardinal Cushing indicated that "we should accept at least topflight men," predicted that a change in the church's attitude "will come in the future...
...Suspicion. On balance, Louis Fischer's is the best of the three biographies. Fischer has devoted much of his long lifetime to the study of Russia (The Soviets in World Affairs; Russia, America, and the World), and he soberly weighs those episodes that the other two biographers sometimes accept as fact, offering the pros and cons of each argument. There is, for example, a genuine riddle about Lenin's racial background. Author Payne insists "there was not a drop of Russian blood" in Lenin, and claims his ancestry was German, Swedish and Chuvash (a Tatar tribe living along...