Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems Elton and Bernie, in their eagerness to sell themselves simple, are probably selling themselves short. Their ballads have often been far more original than their critics have cared to admit. Candle in the Wind, for example, is both a comment on the Marilyn Monroe cult and a tribute to the confused, touching woman who caused it. Rocket Man is a sweet conceit in which the writers conjure up for us what the real-life astronauts never seem to have: the feeling of anxious sadness that must attend exceedingly rapid passage from familiar earth into the dark, cold reaches...
...decision, the court conceded that it was merely starting its work on the rights of mental patients. Left to future cases were such matters as what constitutes adequate treatment and what are fair standards for commitment. "Mainly," Kenneth Donaldson declared last week, "my disease was that I refused to admit that I was ill. From what I've seen and heard, that is the worst disease you can have-refusing to admit that you have a disease...
...would be willing to admit that there is more at work here than sheer greed. The Bicentennial Commission's decision to split the festivities between a number of cities was of course a politic one--maximize the number of places where people can spend money, spread the wealth, and make everyone happy except maybe a few crackpot citizens who don't want hordes of tourists tramping over their community). But it was also an appropriate decision because it recognized the need to bring into all this Bicentennialia as many people as possible. If you don't bring them in, they...
...shame when a patient must truthfully admit that he is perhaps appreciated and loved more by a mere nurse's aide than by his relatives? If nursing homes are "killer institutions," then all sons and daughters of lonely patients are guilty of premeditated murder...
...trial. He also cited the two lay judges' forceful dissent supporting the validity of Cheek's priesthood: "A great moment in church history is before us, and the majority of this court is allowing it to pass by." Even so, the controversy over whether the church should admit female priests is certain to continue into late 1976, when the church hopes to settle the issue at its triennial General Convention...