Word: rejections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HADRIAN VII, by Peter Luke, with British Actor Alec McCowen. Adapted from novel by Frederick William Rolfe. A seminary reject becomes Pope...
...legislatures, federal agencies and universities have grown unmindful of their duty to liberate rather than constrict. Yet in advanced countries, institutions cannot be eliminated; the infinitely complex problems of crime or poverty require organized experts. There is no Gordian knot waiting to be slashed. To yearn for apocalypse and reject the real task-to reform failing institutions-is simply to sabotage one of the world's few self-governing societies...
...liberal faction and an urban expert, Rocky might, if traditional rules operated, expect a top post in a Nixon Cabinet, perhaps Secretary of State or Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Temperament -both his and Nixon's-would probably rule this out. Rockefeller actually says that he would reject an offer even if it were tendered: "I can do more in my own state...
Deep-Seated Love. First National labeled the $120-a-share bid too low, as evidence claimed that White himself had asked at least $140 in offering to sell out his family's holding. Urging shareholders to reject the tender, the bank has declared a dividend increase of 43%, from $2.80 to $4. With his tender offer due to expire August 27, Bill White was insisting meanwhile that his motivation went beyond mere youthful ambition. Said he: "This all comes back to a deepseated, three-generation love of Colorado...
...Durants reject the gloomy view that man is in a dismal rut. Modern existence, precarious, chaotic and murderous as it is, is a vast improvement over the ignorance, superstition, violence and disease of earlier periods. They ask: Are we ready to scuttle the technology that has spread food, home ownership, comfort, education and lei sure beyond any precedent? Would we rather have lived under the laws of the Athenian Republic or the Roman Empire than under constitutions that give us habeas corpus, trial by jury, religious and intellectual freedom and the emancipation of women...