Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Feb. 23 issue contains C. E. Allen's letter berating TIME for claiming the highest office in the world for the President of the U.S. He feels that this honor should go to Pope Pius XII as the "Vicar of Christ on earth . . ." No Protestant will admit that the Pope is infallible, or that he is envoy of the Lord on earth. Such assumption is incorrect, because the Pope is a simple, human gentleman of great culture, elected to his office by other mere mortals-many less than it takes to elect a President...
Suitor at 60? Recently Komar has become restless; he thinks of living in a house of his own. He will hardly admit it to himself, but this is really one way of getting ready for death. For "there was something awful and sad about old men dying in rented rooms...
...Name and rank?" For a moment the young German fighter pilot, shot down near Stalingrad, wondered if it was safe to admit to the Russian interrogator that he was Count Heinrich von Einsiedel, the great-grandson of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. But his hesitation lasted only a moment: von Einsiedel gave his name and famous pedigree...
...artists offer an earnest approximation of the originals. David Wayne, using a vaguely Russian accent, plays Hurok as a kind of uncommercially-minded wet nurse to a gang of temperamental darlings. Veteran Hurok himself, now 64 and one of the shrewdest showmen alive, would undoubtedly be the first to admit that he has done as much as anyone to make an industry...
...After losing almost all its seminary faculty because of its refusal to admit Negro divinity students (TIME, Nov. 17) the University of the South in Sewanee Tenn., ran into more trouble last week. It had no sooner announced the appointment of a new seminary dean and four new faculty replacements than the Very Rev. James A Pike, Dean of Manhattan's Cathedral ol St. John the Divine, bluntly refused to accept an honorary Sewanee D.D. degree. "I could not in conscience," he said, "receive a doctorate in the white divinity which Sewanee apparently is prepared to offer the church...