Word: opted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...physical science; he enlarged understanding of its scope and methods; he excited a taste for adventure in scientific thought." All this may be true; the ten or twelve pages of lucid essay which have preceded these pronunciamentos convinced me they are true. But Newman is asking us to opt for the pragmatic perspective of science rather than make our own decision on what he has given...
Naturally, since the insane aren't terribly interesting or eloquent, Wilson's Dean Andrew Garth is not insane at all. So throughout the first act you don't really understand why he doesn't opt you. But then he says he doesn't want to live in a world full of poverty and disease and misery ("sensitive" somebody explained to me afterwards). For him the madhouse offers, if not utopia, the possible circumstances of love...
...exchange clearly had been well-planned. Puerto Rico is not likely to ask for independence, nor is it liable to opt for statehood. Commonwealth status suits Governor Muñoz and the island well. Muñoz wants his people to ratify it both for their own protection and as an answer to the Castroites, who ridicule the island as a "perfumed colony" of the U.S. He himself is Commonwealth's most ardent champion: he and his pro-Commonwealth Popular Democratic Party have swept into power in four consecutive general elections, the last time in 1960 with an overwhelming...
...acrid quarrel between India and Pakistan over the disputed Himalayan province of Kashmir, where a U.N. cease-fire line keeps an uneasy truce between the two countries. India has ignored U.N. resolutions calling for a self-determination plebiscite in Kashmir because it fears that the predominantly Moslem province would opt to go with Moslem Pakistan. When Ireland (with U.S. backing) introduced another mild resolution in the Security Council to bring the two countries together in negotiations, the measure was promptly killed by the Russians, with whom India is currently dickering for two squadrons of MIG-21 jet fighter planes...
...George C. Scott, 34, turned tough with Hollywood. Up for an Oscar for his sup porting role as the cold-blooded gambler in The Hustler, the temperamental pride of Detroit became the first nominee in the 35-year history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to opt out of the competition. His announced reason: disgust with the lobbying and self-promotion increasingly expected of Oscar seek ers. Said Scott: "I take the position that actors shouldn't be forced to out-advertise and out-stab each other." - A literary lode of remarkable proportions was brought...