Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Patty's whole tale, the prosecutor said, was "just too big a pill to swallow." He asked the jurors if they would accept the "incredible story" of the robbery "from anyone but Patricia Hearst. If you wouldn't, don't accept it from her either." Browning concluded with a quote cited in several Supreme Court decisions that had a grim, Old Testament ring. He hoped, he said, "that guilt shall not escape or innocence suffer...
...most arresting characteristic common to all four men during their radical years was their inability to accept the whole of the Marxist conception of the world. None of them were convinced of the validity of Marx's interpretation of history, which Marx regarded as central to his entire construction. They had other doubts--Burnham and Dos Passos about the role of art, Herberg about the existence of objective, material reality, Eastman about Marx's epistemology, among others. If there is a single explanation for their conversions, it is that each man began with substantive disagreements with Marx and only gradually...
...bright side of the Wick affair was the announcement of Marla Miller '76, a Rotary Fellowship winner, that she would not accept the award if Wick became the Rotary head. Miller, who has no alternative funding and is planning to study in England, invited other Harvard Rotary winners to join her in her protest, but apparently none contacted her. Her action stands in contrast to the morally vacuous behavior of the Rotary leadership...
Tumin declined to say yesterday whether he will accept the award...
...credit, Martin has captured the sense of confusion about moral choices that pervades twentieth century societies. He suggests a reason for it: "Confusion is a prime weapon of evil." But from that premise he asks us to take a dubious leap of faith with him and accept the Devil as the force wielding that weapon. It is a view that will encounter great hostility from psychologists and social historians; still, Hostage to the Devil, for all its flaws, advances an old theory about an old problem in a new and challenging...