Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...murder of the Father Karamazov was a consequence of Ivan's ideas, so was the Revolution a consequence of the (at once brilliant and naive) Russian intellectual ferment, a century in the coagulating. And just as Ivan was unable to face the practical implications of those ideas, to accept his own involvment in reality, and went insane; so Zhivago and his ilk came out of the October Revolution bewildered and shaken into silence...
...earth on these bills." he grumps, "and they always wait until the last minute to do it." Cannon always wants the House to insist on its cuts in conference committee. "Sam Rayburn says, 'Hell, we've got to get out of here.' I always say we can't accept this change. But Sam always says we've got to get the hell out of here...
...Dogma cannot be altered," Dawson explained, "but the canon law of the Eastern Rite will be recodified." Cross had speculated that this change might make unity more attractive to Eastern churches which accept most Catholic doctrine but reject papal supremacy, than to Protestant churches...
...Nesmeyanov and other academicians, who do not like its provision for putting all students to work. At a recent Moscow meeting, Nesmeyanov reportedly toed the line: the time has come to glorify Soviet scientific achievements as the unique outgrowth of Marxist philosophy. Lysenko is not the type to accept political without professional vindication. In the field of Soviet genetics. Khrushchev's announcement that academic and research projects will henceforth get funds in proportion to their showing in the cowshed rather than in the laboratory amounts to a victory for the "practical" Lysenko approach...
...last 20 years I have spiritually progressed. I accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior now. The thing that won me to him more than anything else was the way he spoke of God out of actual personal knowledge-not in terms of speculation or theology. My father was a Presbyterian minister, and I studied for the ministry until the dogmas got me down. I still have not much use for the theologians. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not a complicated thing...