Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mood to go along with the House's deep cut of $1.1 billion in the Administration's $4.9 billion foreign-aid bill. Eloquent Walter George pleaded for the compromise $4.5 billion that his Senate Foreign Relations Committee had approved−and that the Administration had agreed to accept. As he argued, with increasing emotion, that the foreign-aid program is a symbol of U.S. world leadership, the Senate ceased its rustling and rattling to listen to the kind of nonpartisan greatness it hears all too rarely. Said George...
...more authority for local governments, higher wages, improved living conditions. One deputy revealed that rioting had broken out last year in heavily populated Szechwan province, but that it had been put down "effectively." Premier Chou listened impassively to criticisms of the regime he had just asked Formosan Chinese to accept, announced at the close of the congress that everyone "concerned will examine and correct shortcomings and mistakes...
...only dares to question the rules and program of a given classroom, but who also is expected to offer suggestions for improvement." Authority rests not so much with the teacher as with the group. "The teacher himself may belong to the minority−a position which he will gladly accept and for which he will be respected . . . The only acceptable definition for the term 'punishment,'" says Brameld, "is a group-determined penalty for noncooperation with, or violation of, group-imposed regulations...
...horizon clouds over with the problem of evil. Dostoevsky, in The Brothers Karamazov, reduced it to its classic essence, the tortured cry of a single innocent child. If the order of the universe depends on that cry, argues Ivan with his brother Alyosha, "I don't accept God's world," and "I most respectfully return him the entrance ticket." Neither Dostoevsky nor other Outsiders, according to Wilson, are rebels without a cause; they want desperately to find a "way of salvation" that will allow them to accept God's world and man's fate...
...Horror but Joy. For .most Outsiders, such moments of acceptance and reconciliation come, if at all, in fragments of visionary and mystical experience. Such a moment came to T. E. Lawrence in the desert among the Bedouins, when he visualized God as "pure mind." It came to George Fox, who tried to institutionalize it in the Quaker movement, whose members were to be guided by an "inner light." It came to Nijinsky as he made the final entry in his diary: "My little girl is singing: 'Ah ah ah ah.' I do not understand its meaning...