Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...inaugural address, Crane acknowledged he had been Mayor a previous term (1950-51) and said he knew the "headaches, the plusses and the minuses that go with this responsibility, but I accept them." "I have big hopes for the City of Cambridge," the new Mayor added...
...life. Adolescents, reports Clark University's Robert Kasten-baum, manage to dissociate themselves from ideas of death as from everything else past or future - they live in an "in tense present." Faith & Fear. Editor Feifel questioned adults on "What does death mean to you?" Answers ranged from stoic accept ance of the inevitable to welcoming the "precondition for the 'true' life of man." Surprisingly, intensity of religious belief is no index to acceptance of death, and the most vociferous exponents of belief in a life beyond death have proved, in Dr. Feifel's sampling...
...Hachiman. the Shinto god of war, who was incorporated into the peaceful Buddhist pantheon. Unlike his Shinto predecessor, the Buddhist Hachiman as carved by Koshun in 1328 was a peaceful and humble priest. "Even if I should have to drink molten copper," he once exclaimed. "I would not accept offerings from those whose hearts are tainted!" Koshun's image of him is clearly an offering from an untainted heart...
...faced Francis Schaef fer, 47, and his handsome, mission-raised wife, Edith, 41, call their house L'Abri (shelter), and in the 4½ years they have been there, an "Abri Fellowship" has grown up to unite their former visitors and supporters. The Schaeffers depend on contributions; they accept no money from their church, and the young people who come are guests of L'Abri. For this reason, Missionary Schaeffer does not advertise. "There's no sense in turning this chalet into a free home for ski bums," he explains. News of the mission spreads by word...
...trades dialectic with the best of them, as the air grows blue with cigarette smoke. "We don't sell sweet religious pills in the discussions," he says. "What we give is the truth." Missionary Schaeffer's conception of the truth is uncompromisingly Biblical and fundamentalist."If we accept part of the Bible as a myth, we might as well be consequent and accept the whole Bible as a myth. Why, I can have more respect for a Teddy boy who tells me that killing a friend with a bicycle chain is all right...