Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discontents of college life--students saw, then, that something was very wrong with Harvard and the world, and they knew of and fought for a better way. I'm not as sure as I once was of what, exactly, that way was, but the idea of people refusing to accept--indeed, revel in--the system of values that now prevails here appeals to me. Here was a deeply corrupt world, where murder and suffering were deeply institutionalized, and Harvard was preparing people blithely to take their places in it and indeed helping to shape it; and students were objecting...
...past ten years, we all shared Vietnam by watching it on television. We saw it in a heap of bodies at Mylai, in the naked girl running down a road crying as napalm burned through her skin. But, as Fussell says, our culture began to learn how to accept this long ago through a perception that is ironic, accepting an experience that will never conform to our moral values. And we began to learn this ironic form of understanding during World...
SCHECTER: Do you accept the existence of the state of Israel...
...There is a fundamental problem. The P.L.O. is a radical, nationalistic, neo-Islamic movement. It is authoritarian, and it is dedicated to the annihilation of Israel. The P.L.O. is a movement dedicated to every principle that is antagonistic to liberal democratic principles, which Israel stands for. How could Israel accept within it such a movement...
...homosexuals. Berg too decided to fight. He had the full support of his family, including his father, Commander Vernon Berg Jr., a Protestant chaplain at Great Lakes, Ill., Naval Training Center. Said Commander Berg: "Some people are born lefthanded and some righthanded. In our family we accept people as they...