Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Laura Z. Hobson's new novel, Consenting Adult (Doubleday; $7.95), the mother of a gay teen-ager first sends him to a psychiatrist, who fails to "cure" him. After a cycle of deep shock, self-reproach, bitter arguments and forced reconciliations, she finally comes to accept her son's homosexuality and even sends him a congratulatory telegram when he comes...
...city proper, busing could not do much more than merely shuffle students from one predominantly black school to another. The judge thought either plan would entail a massive effort, including the purchase of hundreds of buses, to little real effect. He called for new proposals that would accept any school with a black enrollment of more than 30% as sufficiently desegregated, a standard that is met at present by 79% of Detroit's 326 public schools...
...there are several other potential trouble spots round the nation. In Indianapolis, whose school system is 42% black, a federal appeals court last week stayed a lower court's ruling that would have required eight suburban school districts to accept enough black pupils from downtown to increase their black enrollment to 15%; the stay order is expected to be appealed. In Louisville, a federal court recently ruled that 22,600 students must be bused to bring the newly merged county and city school systems, now 5% and 53% black respectively, into racial balance. In Philadelphia's school system...
...occur, who will be responsible for the financial loss caused by the evacuation? Answers come more easily in totalitarian China. There, says Press, "if an actual quake does not take place, it is felt that the people will understand that the state is acting on their behalf and accept a momentary disruption in their normal lives...
Parkhurst also treats advertisers with truculent disdain. For example, he refuses to accept Ford Motor Co. ads because "they made a crummy truck," and both a Union Oil Co. division and White Motor Corp. have in the past pulled out their advertising after he rapped them. He also has to pay for lawyers to protect himself against an average of some $25 million in pending libel suits (he has won seven and never lost), and to maintain an electric gate at his shabby Hollywood offices to guard against midnight raiders and subpoena servers. Says one staffer: "He could be taking...