Word: accepting
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...animated by his desperate desire to preserve that self. Because Wertmuller focuses so intensely on the subjective character of Pasqualino's choices and presents him through the extraordinary comic talents of Giannini, she demands that we understand him as a person, and ultimately that we identify with and accept his decisions...
...best of my knowledge, the U.S. position is that as long as the P.L.O. does not accept U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338 [which recognize Israel's right to exist], the U.S. will oppose negotiations with the P.L.O. Since the P.L.O. has not given the slightest hint that they are ready to accept the U.S. formula, they are out of the negotiations from the point of view of both Israel...
White Angolans. "But Red Cross officers fear that so massive a retreat to the bush could lead to a new Biafra, with thousands of deaths by starvation. That could be avoided by a political settlement, for which Savimbi is eager. He admitted that he would even accept Agostinho Neto as President of a coalition government, although only if the M.P.L.A. leader gave UNITA an important role. Neto, said Savimbi, is not a true African: if he were, he would understand that the leadership of an African nation requires compromise. 'You never have everybody with you,' he added...
...both institutions. In fact, 150 of the school's faculty and staff currently belong to Farmington, including President Frank L. Hereford Jr., 52. But in one area, the college and the club differ completely. The University of Virginia admits and is actively recruiting blacks; Farmington does not accept blacks as either members or guests. Last week, after members had voted overwhelmingly to continue the club's restrictive policies, Hereford was undergoing pressure to resign from Farmington...
...doctrinal shift, the draft softens some of the gloomier theologizing of the Anglican past. "The 1928 version is overloaded with sin and penitence," says Canon Charles Guilbert, 67, custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer and secretary of the liturgical commission. "The old Communion didn't really accept forgiveness. We trust God. We trust that if we confess, he will forgive...