Word: reject
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taking Wing. The West applauded Bourguiba's effort to begin an Arab-Israeli dialogue, but Israel's Arab neighbors responded with a bellow of rage. Two months ago, Bourguiba had infuriated Middle East Arabs by rallying North Africa to reject Nasser's campaign against West Germany. Now Bourguiba's Arab critics were angrier than ever. Government radios, from Baghdad to Cairo, blasted Bourguiba as a traitor, a madman "who should be locked in an asylum," and as a Judas "who should be immediately executed." Mobs blossomed in the streets of half a dozen Arab capitals...
...footer who had skipped fifth grade, Greg could have taken the normal courses, knocked off all A's. Instead he chose to test his mettle in Houston's tough "major works" classes for advanced students and wound up with a B-plus average, which led Harvard to reject him, Columbia to put him on a waiting list...
Some relates the story of one Texas who "could have taken normal and knocked off all A's," but the instead to test his ability in classes advanced students. As a result, the states, "he wound up with a B-plus age, which led Harvard to reject...
Even in the Roman Catholic Church, where bishops overwhelmingly reject the idea, at least a few theologians wonder about the possibility of change. In a recent book, Peruvian Jesuit José Idigoras argued that there was no difference in the rites of ordination for deacons and deaconesses in early Christianity, and that St. Paul's misogynistic teachings ("I permit no woman to teach") must be interpreted in light of women's position at the time. Some members of the St. Joan's International Alliance, an association of equality-seeking Catholic women, have petitioned Rome to allow women...
...differentiated from the surface of the canvas by the line enclosing the shape. A black line or a black blotch on a white surface creates the illusion of "relief," just as surely as a seated figure seems separate from the picture plane. The painters of the exhibit tend to reject relief and explicit bounding lines in favor of a more homogeneous surface area. Paint is exploited for its own abstract properties. The colored surfaces imply nothing but colored surfaces, demanding the viewer's interest solely in the value of their interrelationship...