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Word: acceptance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...symbol can only do so much. Too often, it convinces those who cling to them more than those who must accept them. And if there will never be another 1950s night at a Harvard dining hall, students will no doubt attribute it to the complaints of a bunch of Black students. Not to a bunch of white people who offended them...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/1/1989 | See Source »

...acutely embarrassing to Washington. In supporting the non-Communist members of the rebel coalition, the U.S. has at least indirectly backed the Khmer Rouge as well. But Washington hopes to undercut the Khmer Rouge by boosting aid to Sihanouk. Diplomats in Beijing believe that China is ready to accept the "decapitation" of the Khmer Rouge, permitting it to take part in a national-unity government but barring its infamous leaders from holding power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kampuchea Is Peace at Hand? | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...substantial executive authority but also demanded that the $430 million Bastille opera house start paying its way with an assembly line of up to 250 performances a season. Barenboim agreed to take a substantial pay cut, but the arguments over artistic control remained insoluble. "I am not willing to accept the chief executive of a couture house telling me who is best to sing a particular role," Barenboim told a press conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Second Storming of the Bastille | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...choice of classic works is "elitist." Says he: "The program established by Barenboim . . . satisfies neither President Mitterrand nor me." But he puts considerable blame for the furor on the maestro's exalted pay: "I offered Barenboim a salary of 4 million francs (($667,000)), but he would not accept anything less than 5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Second Storming of the Bastille | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...that Barenboim would be spending only a minimal four months a year at the Bastille. The conductor claimed he would spend at least seven months there and wondered aloud how much time Berge was planning to take off from Saint Laurent to work on opera. "When he refused to accept my conditions," Berge declared, "we broke off negotiations. I cannot let the money of the state be spent in so extravagant a fashion." And he did not like Barenboim's slurs, either. "I am not the head of any old couture house," he said. "I built a fashion empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Second Storming of the Bastille | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

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