Word: rejected
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LEFTISTS and rightists at Harvard share a tendency to reject all activist militance as empty militance. Conservatives predictably reject nearly all student activism as overblown. Leftists themselves are also to blame, though, for rejecting innovative options. Reluctant to appear too radical, activists here rarely deviate from the norm of University Hall rallies. COCA's recent tactics are undoubtedly militant, and unusual for Harvard, but they are anything but empty...
...with memories of the Iran arms-for-hostages swaps still fresh, American officials too have been careful to reject suggestions that the two nations are conducting anything like hostage negotiations. "You want to do things that are justifiable on their own merits and defensible in terms of U.S. interests," said a State Department official. "And if Iran wants to take it as a signal, fine...
...regarded as a scientific fact." But another section asserts, "It is a scientific fact that organisms have evolved through time." The board advises teachers not to suppress part of the curriculum "on the grounds that it may be contrary to an individual's beliefs" nor to demean people who reject evolution "on the basis of religious faith." The guidelines say the ultimate cause of the cosmos is not appropriate for science courses but may be treated in history or English classes...
...like a pumpkin on his stocky frame. He lacks conventional star magnetism: the athletic abandon, the flaming sexuality, the audacity of interpretation that risks derision to achieve greatness. Expect no swooning teenagers to queue at his stage door, no desperate fan to write him suicide notes. Anyway, he would reject that form of hero worship, for his personality radiates shopkeeper common sense. He is a model of Thatcherite initiative in a British arts scene of radical distemper...
Influenced by liberalization in both theology and society, such clergymen reject or redefine the official concept of celibacy. Many of them interpret it as a ban upon marriage instead of sex, or as an ideal instead of a law to be obeyed. One of Wolf's homosexual priests said of the celibacy rule, "Since it is forced, it has no moral binding power as long as scandal is avoided...