Word: acceptible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obvious flaw in the proposed settlement is that it is impossible to determine whether the black majority will accept the agreement, because Smith's government has never permitted free elections or any other realistic expression of black opinion. United States Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young has aptly criticized the settlement, noting that a settlement without the Popular Front will probably set black against black, eventually outweighing any possible benefits. Furthermore, the Smith plan does not meet the standards of the Anglo-American proposal hammered out last year...
Peter's recognition of Jesus as the Messiah is the climax of the book of Mark, Kermode said, but it is obscured in a "core of secrecy. We are unwilling to accept mystery and leave it at that, and yet our literary interpretations are concerned with finding a large abstract secrecy...
...recognition (the admission of Third World students) must be a dynamic process, not merely as compensation for past oppression, but as acknowledgement of the fact that Third World people comprise a large and growing proportion of this nation's population--a proportion of the population that will no longer accept being denied the wealth and opportunity they helped create." I have two objections to that: It can sometimes be a dangerous thing to demand things for the future as reparation for wrongs done in the past. This often compelling argument has been used as a means for obtaining what...
...addition, the authors have left the most important point out of their manifesto--this recognition they demand should not be a recognition of race only, but also of academic preparation and of ability. If Harvard will accept a person simply because he belongs to a racial or ethnic minority why shouldn't they accept me simply because I am left handed or walk with a limp? If academic ability is not to be the primary consideration for the admissions office, then how long will Harvard remain a college that anyone interested in learning wishes to attend...
Remember that man in Minnesota who wanted, for various obscure philosophical reasons, to change his name legally from Mr. Michael Herbert Dengler to Mr. 1069? The one who had so much trouble obtaining a driver's license and getting utility companies to accept his unique numerical self-designation? Last week Judge Donald Barbeau of Hennepin County district court reached his decision on the unusual case. "Dehumanization is widespread," he declared. "To allow the use of a number instead of a name would only provide additional nourishment upon which the illness of the dehumanization is able to feed and grow...