Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standards requires that we as a faculty reach a consensus--which in turn might be read as imposing conformity or, even more fallaciously, as socializing our students on behalf of this country's "ruling classes." I have heard this view expressed by a few students, but I cannot accept its validity. The standards I have suggested do not represent or preclude any political point of view; indeed, they favor the broadening of sensibilities and the displacement of conventional wisdom by critical thinking...
...Dunster House political affairs seminar, Williams criticized American policy as directed by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 for being "too little" to deal with the problems of black Africans, "too late" to stop fighting in southern Africa, and "too early" for whites who are unwilling to accept black majority rule...
...woman president. Although not the result of a Crimson parody of the Yale Daily News, it sounded like it might have been. Last week, in a story billed as an exclusive from its Washington bureau, the Herald reported that Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 was likely to accept the offer of a chair endowed in his name at Columbia University. If he decided against that, the story went on, he reportedly could choose from offers such as the presidency of the Ford Foundation, the chairmanship of CBS, or "the vice-presidency of Harvard University." Although any of those...
...more cautious about what I say and that some of the things that I've always taken for granted have aroused great doubt among people who haven't had the same background and experience as myself. I think I've learned to accept criticism much better than I could at first, and I've learned about my own inadequacies, my own lack of knowledge. I've had a chance to see problems in people's lives that I had never visualized before. I learned a lot more about ethnic groups who still feel...
...final race of the season, the Japanese Grand Prix. At the foot of Mount Fuji, the matter was decided, not on the track but in the minds of the two drivers. James Hunt took on the risk of racing through rain into fog-shrouded turns. Niki Lauda could not accept the dangers. Hunt finished the race in third place, scoring four points and claiming the driver's crown. Lauda pulled into the pits after one lap, surrendering his title and, with it, the mystique that drivers never bow to fear...