Word: accept
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...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think, is best. But not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted"; we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret...
...sensitive time for Shamir. Plans are under way for a meeting of Israeli, American and Egyptian foreign ministers to advance Shamir's proposal for elections in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. The Prime Minister's ulterior motive in attacking Weizman was to emphasize his determination never to accept any role for the P.L.O...
...Because Harvard will accept no responsibility, I feel like I have been abused by the burglars and by the school," said one resident, who asked not to be identified...
...stepped-up spraying touched off a political uproar. The Los Angeles City Council unanimously asked the state to conduct further studies and examine alternatives. Moaned Los Angeles County Supervisor Ed Edelman: "Once, twice, O.K. People will accept that. But twelve times? I question what the health effects might...
...only a week earlier, he had ordered his security forces to fire on demonstrators in the city of Timisoara, near the border with Yugoslavia, as he flew off for an official visit to Iran. Now, under arrest and facing a military tribunal, he did not seem to understand or accept his defeat. He raged at his judges, who were not shown on the tape, insisted that he would answer only to the "working class" and refused to address the prosecutor's charges that he had destroyed Rumania. Within a bare two hours, the Ceausescus were found guilty of genocide, with...