Word: admits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marseille tarots first printed in the 18th century. More mythic figures appear among the guests, but the stories also take on sooty overtones of industrialism and hints of the modern totalitarian state. The author seeks his own story in the pack. "Perhaps," he ventures, "the moment has come to admit that only tarot number one honestly depicts what I have succeeded in being: a juggler, or conjurer, who arranges on a stand at a fair a certain number of objects and, shifting them, connecting them, inter changing them, achieves a certain num ber of effects...
...Haverford became restless. President John Coleman, 55, felt that his Quaker school was violating the sect's egalitarian views by refusing to admit women. He also believed that Haverford, worried about its financial wellbeing, would do well to expand from 750 students to about 1,000 by recruiting females. Last November the Haverford faculty voted almost unanimously to admit women, and the student body backed them...
...their decisions. Their recent reform still fails to address the exam problem and the inconvenience of trying to compete for summer jobs with students who finish school in early May. (Heaven forbid that Yale do something right, and a lightening bolt plus two divine interventions should Harvard ever admit it.) Harvard's professors should extend themselves a little more for their students, and moving the college's starting date back to early September would help immeasurably. Of course, I've heard that the green flies of Maine are much less ferocious in September than June, and the Science Center...
...talent and the experience to live up to the job. Certainly the transition has not been smooth, despite Carter's avowals that it would be the best-planned in history. But the incoming President's men are bright, dedicated and diligent, and even their critics must admit that they have already pulled off one startling surprise: getting their mentor elected in the first place...
...government was clearly the loser in the debade, although no one expected it to affect French foreign policy seriously. Declared one former French Foreign Ministry official: "There's only one way for France to go. The Arabs are the future, and we're honest enough to admit it. We realize Abu Daoud will probably come back to Paris one day as a Palestinian government Cabinet minister...