Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...note the spread of political apathy and to lament it has become commonplace. This lack of deeply felt political commitment reflects to a large degree, I believe, the broad areas of agreement on major issues, which we have just examined. The more fully we recognize and accept that consensus, the more difficult it is to tackle the remaining differences with the zeal and the energy which our democratic tradition seems to demand...
...consensus will necessarily accept and vigorously continue the struggle to create rising standards of living and opportunity here in America. Yet the factor which will distinguish it from its predecessors is its realization that freedom in this tightly inter-related world is becoming indivisible...
...election year most of us will exercise our right to criticize or applaud the efforts of the administration in the domestic field. Some may think that it has not gone far or fast enough; others may think it has gone too far. But its stated policies and objectives clearly accept the first of the underlying premises of the New Deal: that the federal government is responsible for certain minimum economic standards...
...author tells us that the Russians have abandoned complete freedom in favor of a "unifying philosophy" which all must accept. This proves, by implication, that freedom is a good thing, since Russian education is a bad thing. But Dr. Conant never discusses the possibility that the fault is not in the unifying philosophy per se, but rather in the universal acceptance of a philosophy incapable of encompassing experience, dialectical materialism. The premise is apparently that no philosophy can unify, a premise certainly needing defense...
Only seven sophomores qualified physically for the advanced training, and all have left the unit. "We are ready to accept return transfers," Elliot asserted, "but probably not until next fall. They will of course receive credit for the term if they were in Army ROTC...