Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America," King says, "is substantially controlled by a few people; it is not a representative government. Congressmen have a vested interest in seeing that America maintains her world hegemony, and they feel it essential to protect this interest." Thus, these leaders will educate their constituencies to accept the Negro...
...growth rate in Europe, a phenomenal 15%, and has achieved that growth by defying Moscow. The original role Khrushchev had charted for Rumania under its Comecon plan-the Red version of the Common Market-was that of an agricultural exporter and supplier of oil and petrochemicals. Dej refused to accept this "dumb-peasant" role, struck out on his own three years ago to do as much business with the West as possible...
...Astor newspapers, the London Times and the Observer, the Cliveden set became a sinister synonym for the forces in Britain that believed in making a deal with Hitler. Though actually Prime Minister Chamberlain fervently believed in appeasement with no persuasion from his hostess, Nancy Aster's failure to accept the final futility of his policy caused her to be attacked as godmother of Munich and a Nazi sympathizer...
Last year he appointed a Negro pastor to a white congregation in Tucson, and he has pledges from more than 50 churches that they will accept any minister he assigns, regardless of color...
...Hemingway's saying, Zelda Fitzgerald almost destroyed Scott through her insane envy of his talent by convincing him that he was sexually inadequate. Hemingway claims that he realized she was insane long before Fitzgerald was forced to accept the fact. As evidence, he cites the time that Zelda asked him: "Don't you think Al Jolson is greater than Jesus?" Perhaps the lost generation was not really lost after all, merely mislaid...