Word: rejects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which is dictated purely by financial considerations. Such has been its technique in the most recent library controversy. But in spite of the attempt, the Student Council Library Committee has been able to show that no matter how it may try, or what it may say, the administration cannot reject the undergraduate plea for longer Lamont hours on grounds other than just plain "lack of funds...
...Grimm fairy tales, poems by Catullus, Greek tragedy. He called it a "dramatic cantata," and meant it to be performed as a theater piece. At 59, still living near his native Munich, Orff no longer writes for the concert hall. Says he: "Melody and speech belong together. I reject the idea of a pure music...
...Fascist authorities in Piedmont: "I have done much wrong to the fatherland and to the Fascist regime. Today I am glad and proud to be able to declare that I, with a spontaneity beyond any suspicion and an impulse springing from soul-searching sincerity, am determined to reject those Marxist conceptions which Fascist reality has completely emptied. I know now that the corporate state is capable of realizing what elsewhere remains a mere promise . . . The instinctive certainty that Fascist justice will know how to reward him who shows a wish to rehabilitate himself gives me the best hope...
...Senator McCarthy's favor. While his behavior has scandalized much of the intelligent public, McCarthy has generally managed to respect Senatorial traditions. His careful adherence to a committee chairman's prerogatives and a solid party-line voting record--almost as much as McCarthy's political potency--made Senators reject overwhelmingly the Benton censure resolution...
...Hindustan Times, "of India, Burma and Indonesia wanting to swing over to China." And the influential Times of India seemed to be writing an epitaph over Nehru's dream of a protected Area of Peace when it acknowledged that "it would be something unusual for Communist China to reject the traditional Communist pattern of expansion...