Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oath is, with its concealed threat to academic freedom and its latent McCarthyism, the Pennsylvania schools' complete rejection of the beneficial aspects of the program results merely in cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. A more reasonable course for the University is to accept the Federal funds and to provide its own loan funds for students who object to the oath. There is no reason why the University can not pray for repeal with one hand while accepting the cold cash with the other...
...money, clothes, manners, and social status. But with regard to these peripheral considerations, the accusation is probably not well founded. This becomes telling when it is directed toward the intellectual sphere. At Harvard, a wrong conclusion is bad indeed, and the wrong outlook is contemptible. The Harvard student will accept a new idea if he agrees with it; but it commands little attention merely because it is new, or different. The intolerance of this aspect of Harvard's provincialism is demonstrated by the refusal to discuss matters on any but one's own terms, on the theory that they...
...Before we can be in a position to fix individual responsibility," the Deans went on to say, 'it is necessary to accept corporate responsibility. Vigorous investiga- tion is being conducted to determine individual responsibility, and appropriate further disciplinary action will be taken in all such cases...
...message of Christianity is not Christianity, but a New Reality. A New state of things has appeared, it still appears; it is hidden and visible, it is there and it is here. Accept it, enter into it, let it grasp...
...Fence? What does Theologian Tillich have to offer to the millions of Protestants who believe themselves secure in their faith and their churches? He offers at least three things: 1) an impressively designed theological system that tends to order and clarify Protestant ideas, even for those who do not accept Tillich's interpretation; 2) a kind of shock treatment for the complacent, who are apt to be driven, by Tillich's unorthodoxies, to re-examine the basis of their own faith; 3) a passionate, contagious concern for the human condition and for faith as an essential element...