Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is evidence that the introspective Shah recently began to realize that the end was coming, though he remained immobilized and unable to accept the fact that his grand scheme had failed. When TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis asked him in late November what he felt had been his biggest mistake, the Shah answered sadly: "Being born." On another occasion, he wondered aloud how many of his people would go into the streets to cheer and support him as a million Frenchmen once did for Charles de Gaulle during his hour of need. Says a Western diplomat in Tehran: "I doubt...
...difference between the Punjabis and the army of Alexander the Great. They're both occupying powers." In the garrison town of Khuzdar, where a third of the 15,000 population consists of military personnel, civilians resent the fact that plumbing is only available in government housing. Merchants who accept a Pakistani soldier's money often ignore his attempts at conversation. Befriending a government trooper brings with it the risk of being branded a kasa chat (ass kisser...
...Accept Insults-for a Price. To raise funds for a new science building, students at Maine's Unity College sold raffle tickets entitling them to throw pies at faculty members. Past President Allan Karstetter squashed a pie on his own face to collect a $200 stake put up for the occasion by one of his trustees...
...18th century, Enlightenment notions of free will and human progress had begun to challenge harsh determinist doctrines. Americans had come to accept the theories of English Philosopher John Locke, who wrote widely on child rearing, speculating that children were not born depraved, but that the "souls of the newly born are just empty tablets afterwards to be filled in by observation and reasoning...
...Cleveland business establishment and press continually charged with ineptitude and hostility, had to deal with the incomprehensible financial records left by the previous administration of Republican Ralph J. Perk. Then on Dec. 16, Kucinich's refusal to make political compromises and devise a financial package that the banks would accept plunged the city into default...