Word: rejected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting of faculty and students in the Astronomy Department resolved yesterday by a substantial majority to reject the revised Draft Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities as submitted by the Committee of Fifteen...
Charles A, Judge. assistant admissions director for Overseas Students. said that the quota was instituted after Word War II to insure a minimum of foreign students who might not otherwise be admitted. But now the quota has the opposite effect and forces the MBA program to reject many well qualified candidates, especially from Europe and English-speaking countries, he said...
...ecclesiastical garb). In reaction against the trend toward secularization, there may well be a sweeping revival of fundamentalism, particularly in its fervent, Pentecostal variety. The decade will also see the proliferation of small, home-centered worship groups with their own rituals, perhaps even their own theologies. Many people will reject traditional Western religions, finding inspiration and solace in the mystery cults of the East or in eclectic spiritual systems of their own devising. Religious impulses will find expression as well in interpersonal "T-groups," like those spawned by California's Esalen Institute, and in the occult. For many, astrology...
...unions and governments-will probably not escape the virus of what Herbert Marcuse calls "the absolute refusal." Eventually, the nation may find civil service bureaucrats ignoring policy decisions they disagree with; reporters and editors may seek veto power over editorial decisions, as has happened in Europe; factory workers will reject the monotony of the assembly line. Employees at all levels will demand that corporate goals mesh with their personal goals, and socially irresponsible companies will not be able to attract talent. "People will have to be recognized as individuals," says French Futurist Bertrand de Jouvenel. "You have to acknowledge...
...Like, when an idea comes into my head from-" she waved her hand over her head-"I don't think about it or reject it. I just let it flow on through. But it's not me." She paused...