Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...indiscreet to reject Senator John Kennedy's bid for the presidency solely because of his religion, isn't it equally immature to deny the office to Senator Johnson because of where he lives? It seems to me that the two situations are analogous...
...neither seek the nomination nor hope for it nor expect it," said he at a jampacked, hour-long homecoming press conference in Manhattan. Would he accept a draft? Cracked Stevenson: "If I seemed to reject it, I'd be a draft evader...
...British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, arriving in Washington aboard a Royal Air Force Comet. Macmillan, who favors the Soviet bid, contended that the long-drawn Geneva talks had raised such high hopes around the world that to resume testing would amount to propaganda suicide. If the West were to reject the Soviet compromise, it would have forfeited the opportunity to hold the Kremlin to a controllable ban on atmospheric tests and large underground explosions...
...that easily. Already she has hurled more than 1,000,000 words in two hectoring novels at what she considers the root illness of man-the tyrrany of altruism. "If any civilization is to survive," said she last week, "it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject." And why? Because this Christian virtue leads to self-immolation, tolerance of the "incompetent" common man, the welfare state, and ultimately to the slave labor camp. By hindering ego, altruism destroys human "reason." Nurtured by a small Manhattan cult, Author Rand's unaltruistic philosophy of "objectivism" is objectified...
...shrinking world, the internal policies of one nation may have effects outside it," and the old saying, "mind your own business" now needs amendment to "mind your own business, but mind how it affects my business, too." Pounding the table for emphasis, he told the white supremacists that "we reject the idea of any inherent superiority of one race over another." He knew South Africa's problems, but "I hope you won't mind my saying frankly that there are some aspects of your poli cies which make it impossible for us to support you without being false...