Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answer to Chaplain Landman's letter about the "intellectual chutzpah" of proselytizing [March 7]: Yes, it does take a leap of faith to claim the Scriptures as the only source of God's truth; and to someone who doesn't accept Christianity the claim may indeed sound absurd. But in the final analysis that is the whole point of Christianity. The Scriptures aren't a philosophical methodology or an ethical system (although they include those things), but the Word...
...past 75 years of men's intercollegiate sports have provided a pattern of development to a recently emerging organization of women's athletics. Hopefully those who will guide this movement will not simply accept the values behind men's athletics without questioning them. Hopefully, in a quest for equality, they will not overload a precious opportunity to find a different, better...
Tennint A. Tranchan '77, a student in H-entry, said the meeting should be used to "get people to accept responsibility for what goes on in their room." He added it would be "very wrong and very ineffective" to attempt to assign blame for the individual acts of destructiveness...
...kidnaping or murder in the name of social justice, there is a chance that they will be excused, or at least create confusion. Says David Rapoport, professor of political science at U.C.L.A.: "This country allows acts under the guise of politics and morality that it wouldn't otherwise accept...
Henry Kissinger and most other professional diplomats believe that this kind of open diplomacy is untenable. It makes it politically difficult for leaders to accept or reject proposals in the face of domestic public opinion, and makes it hard for everyone, including the U.S., to back down or change course. Carter disagrees. He thinks that U.S. diplomacy has been too secret in the past, thereby often failing to enlist understanding and support from the U.S. public. Ventilating a difficult idea, he believes, can be healthy. Of his Middle East suggestion, one Washington official observes: "It gets the Israelis off some...