Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't have quite enough faith in the old pattern, so he re-ordered it to make more sense. The Acts, though a noble effort, fails because Steinbeck refuses to accept the irrationalities of questing struggle and fate in Arthur's day, and by implication in ours. But if we are to understand Arthur and the Arthurian myth, it will be not with intellect but with emotion, with that part of us which is unashamedly irrational and which, without needing to know what "sytthen" or "clypped" signify, comprehends the desperate love of the woman pouring out her desire to Lancelot...
Craig noted that a party breakup could be precipitated if Miki decides to leave the party and take his supporters with him rather than accept deposition...
...East settlement, he hopes to win the same kind of support from President-Elect Jimmy Carter that he had from Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Sadat also intends to make the prospect of ending the state of war so attractive to the West that the Israelis will have to accept. As one Egyptian official put it last week, "If the Israelis appear to be refusing to end the war, I wonder if they can again get $5 billion from the American Congress...
...Syrians, moreover, have even been able to put diplomatic pressure on the battered Palestine Liberation Organization. In what Arab sources interpreted as a bitter concession, the Palestinians last week accepted a "half-a-loaf" settlement they had consistently refused when the U.N. General Assembly voted 90 to 16 in favor of establishing a separate Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank. Previously, the Palestinians had always vowed that they would accept nothing less than the elimination of Israel as a state...
...before the United Nations General Assembly, riding the crest of Third World acclaim and proclaiming the ascendancy of the Palestinian liberation movement. But resurgent optimism about a final Arab-Israeli peace still focuses on Arafat, that mysterious figure in the middle, and the central question has become: will he accept half a loaf for the Palestinians...