Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thoughtful Jews accept the idea that anti-Zionism equals antiSemitism. Some of us feel personally threatened by Zionism and by what we consider to be the backward, tribal, undemocratic, indisputable objective of political Zionism-the ingathering of all Jews into the state of Israel...
...accept the conclusion that Oswald killed both Kennedy and Officer Tippit is not necessarily to believe that no one put him up to it. Yet no evidence of a plot has ever been brought forward. The hit man in such a scheme does not wander around, as Oswald did -walking, catching a bus, switching to a cab, picking up a revolver at his rooming house and walking again-with not enough money to travel far from the scene of the crime. He does not call attention to himself ahead of time by barging into the Cuban and Soviet embassies...
...Johnson thought that Kennedy had been a victim of a Communist plot. "When I took office," Johnson told TIME Correspondent Leo Janos in June 1971, "I discovered that we had been operating a goddamn Murder Inc. in the Caribbean. I never believed that Oswald acted alone, although I can accept that he was the one who pulled the trigger...
...nadir as Braudy realizes that her husband, too, is having an affair. And so arises "the great unanswerable question. How come only Susan can have a new romance in her life?" Braudy asks why a woman can so easily drift to another man, yet find it so hard to accept her partner's similar involvement. This question is followed by another, equally perturbing one, "Why do women define themselves as failures without a man?" Although Braudy poses many questions, for the most part she leaves them unanswered. Because she has written the diary not to interpret or rationalize her emotions...
Although the UMass proposal would allow the corporation to begin construction on the museum and library sooner than the Harvard-backed plan, the corporation must look at the more overriding long-term benefits of the split-site. If the corporation seriously meant that it would accept a suitable slip-site proposal as it said last May--then it should choose the Harvard-backed plan and build the archives in Harvard Square and the museum in Charlestown...