Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some tremendously comic episodes that his hero is a power-hungry Hitler because he's afraid he really has no power at all. Malcolm has a hard time just getting out of bed in the morning. And he has an even harder time screwing up his courage enough to accept advances from the girl he likes. Kenny McBain's production (he directed the show and played the title role) implied that hesitancy with Ann Gedge and ensuing self hatred were what spurred Malcolm on to power politics. He became the Leader of the Dynamic Erectionist Party in place of seducing...
This does not mean that the 24-man admissions committee--composed of staff and a varying number of Faculty--has only to rate its 7000 applicants on "personality," and then simply accept the 1400 or so with the highest ratings; for example, no student will be accepted unless the committee believes he can at least get C's here. But it does mean that an outsider, given only the computer data and asked to guess which applicants the committee will accept, will come close if he chooses those with the highest personal ratings, tossing in about 100 students...
...admissions process consists of sifting tens of thousands of these hunches--some made by admissions personnel and other by New Mexico high school teachers--and emerging with 1400 students. (Only 1150 generally accept their places, and some 50 more are added from a waiting list...
...pencils notes into his seveninch thick looseleaf filled with computer forms. In the notebook used by former admissions dean Fred L. Glimp last year, there are notes like "Yale son" in a circle, or "soccer" followed by two exclamation points. Next to each name is a red "A" for accept or a blue "R" for reject--or a red "A" crossed out and replaced by a blue...
...might provide that confrontation, since it is doubtful that the College Council would accept RUS representatives in its membership...