Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are too many villains in the drama to single out one for the most severe denunciation. The humorless, self-aggrandizing athletes of the Undergraduate Athletic Council can only be condemned for their refusal to accept their Radcliffe compatriots. The University Administration, a stiff-necked, Puritan lot, cannot be chastized enough for the paternal prohibitions it placed upon the Harvard Band. The HAA, in ordering local constables to arrest any girl appearing on the field, has forgotten that Harvard is not merely a moneymaking institution...
...world civilization will inevitably raise in eastern lands the question: What is the destiny of man?--and therefore, What are the absolutes on which life is to be based? The coming of Christ was the coming of an absolute, which men must accept, or find another. The new world civilization must eventually center itself around Christ or Antichrist. And interpreting from the New Testament, there is hope that Christ will be the center. Pat Henry...
...Houston's Negro districts boosted funds to some $4,000, and Candidate White began a hard campaign. Pointedly, she talked of issues, e.g., Houston schoolchildren pay 4? more a half-pint for lunchtime milk than children in surrounding districts because the hyperconservative school board has refused to accept federal aid. She did not orate for integration. But she visited Negro schools, some of which lack libraries, cafeterias, permanent buildings, reported wryly: "I have found them very separate, but not quite equal...
...most part, meritocracy works; the upper class knows for the first time in history that it is superior in all ways to the lower; and the intellectual proletariat is encouraged to accept a "just inferiority" and develop a liking for sports. Modern wonders abound in Young's Utopia; the morning rocket leaves regularly for the moon, and England's southwestern counties have been covered with concrete for the convenience of motorists. But even as the author writes, the end is in sight. A general strike is called by a fusion party of disgruntled old men, trade unionists dimly...
...Soviet Union turned thumbs down on a counterproposal advanced by the United States. The American plan, brought in with British backing, urged the three powers to accept a double commitment to end tests and to establish the necessary international machinery to police such...