Word: acceptability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Ever since Ulysses S. Grant informed the commander of the Confederate forces at Vicksburg that he would "accept no terms except immediate and unconditional surrender," Americans have had a peculiar obsession with total victory at any cost. Without favoring appeasement, it is still possible to favor exhausting all possibilities for a peaceful settlement before we consider fighting...
Scott says that she doubted Ehrlich would accept the Harvard presidency--even if selected--because of his dedication to "public educational institutions" like Indiana...
...There's Chauncey Gardiner to E.T. -- and to the heroes of Burton's Beetlejuice and Pee-wee's Big Adventure. When the Avon lady brings him into her spectacularly bland neighborhood, she unawares sets his creativity on a collision course with her friends' anxious conformity. At first the housewives accept Edward's handicap as a gift. His metal shears can dice vegetables in a trice, turn a drab hairdo into a chic coiffure and sculpt front-yard bushes into exotic topiary: ballerinas, pterodactyls, even a group portrait of the all-suburban family. And how pleased Edward...
...imagined slaves Sarah (Shegog) and Hannibal (Geoffrey Fletcher) inspired by Hansberry's first visit to the South, as they try to decide whether Hannibal should run away from slavery. The central characters from A Raisin in the Sun wrestle with the same question when they debate if they should accept a white man's money in exchange for not moving into his neighborhood. The Playwright herself wonders whether she can best serve her the cause of civil rights by writing in New York or by journeying South with the Freedom Riders...
Maksoud said that while Arab nations could not accept the forcible annexation of Kuwait, the idea of Western military involvement was equally unacceptable...