Word: rejections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pressure for banning the party as undemocratic, the government has so far declined to do so, for fear it could not win in court. The squeeze on the N.P.D. has been applied in more subtle ways: many cities refuse to rent the party municipally owned halls for rallies, newspapers reject its ads, and television has all but blacked out its campaign. Preparing his alibis in advance, Von Thadden says he will appeal the election returns in court on the grounds that the N.P.D. has not been given a fair chance of presenting its case to the voters. If he wins...
...20th century politicians of the six counties feared that an Irish government would mean an end to the elaborate and delicate system through which the ascendency of the Ulster settler's descendents was maintained. These folk, known as Unionists, organized a small but efficient army to force Britain to reject the idea of Irish Home Rule...
...small, official opposition in the parliament is the Nationalist Party. The Nationalists reject or rejected the notion of Ulster and at the base of their party was the notion that Ulster should be part of the whole Irish nation. Basing the politics of the province on such a fundamental question had the effect of stalling, until this last year, effective opposition to the Unionist regime...
...culture transplant poses the same difficulty as a heart transplant. It is socially as well as biologically instinctive to reject what is alien. One slightly condescending form of acceptance is to treat what is foreign as exotic. Culturally speaking, this makes one man's meat another man's persimmon. In many ways, the Grand Kabuki is a Japanese persimmon on a U.S. theatergoer's palate. It is a sweet, sumptuous and strange new taste sensation with which to start the Broadway season...
...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is the best: but not for the reason he suggests-that the assumption is so cosmic that it may sometimes 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 is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course-and we like to be called "assistants," not "graders" -you may be able to ferret...