Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jowled Lyndon Johnson at the end of March, peering out at America, through the close-up on a grainy black-and-white television screen: "Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your Presi . . ." The nation stunned, astonished, and millions of the young performing backflips...
...goes up on a new year of opera and symphonic performances across the U.S., is it really about to come down on a tradition that Americans have long considered the epitome of high culture? Ernest Fleischmann, the formidable executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, thinks so. "We must accept that the orchestra as we know it is dead," he declared last May. "It's dead because symphony concerts have become dull and predictable; musicians and audiences are suffering from repetitive routines and formula- type programming; there is an acute shortage of conductors who not only know their scores inside...
...University of Pennsylvania's policies toward minority faculty members came under fire last month, as an Asian woman professor at the Wharton School of Business reportedly claimed that she was sexually harassed, denied tenure unfairly, and then offered money to accept the school's decision...
...Yale were to accept the unions' proposal, the university's labor expenditures would increase by 91 percent over the next three years, Wellington said...
...Once you accept that Harvard needs a student center the question becomes: Is it feasible? And if so, why hasn't one been built already? The answer to these questions is intimately tied up with Harvard's late great white male social institution--the finals club...