Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promising young people. To recognize that criterion used to evaluate advantaged students may obscure the talents of a student who has grown up under oppressive conditions does not lower standards or make exceptions. It acknowledges that different criterion are needed for students from different conditions and allows Harvard to admit and train outstanding young people from all strata of society...
...that the U.S. House of Representatives has decided to admit TV cameras to witness its daily business, House leaders fear that something more fundamental than personal fashions may be disrupted by the intrusion. They believe that the onlooking electronic eye, with its unpredictable and even mysterious refractions of reality, might be an alien influence, a distraction that could profoundly change the nature of the House-its procedures, its schedules, its public image, even the quality of the legislation it produces...
...impossible. Even Adams' fervent admirers admit that he can be spotty: at best an artful cataloguer of flora and fauna, at worst a windy sentimentalist. Memorable passages occur only when his imagination roosts among furry creatures or in the mid-regions of myth. Give him anything more difficult to chew on than a bone, and things fall apart. The story of Rowf and Snitter is glutted with just such indigestibles...
During Carey's freshman year, no men were allowed in women's rooms except on Sunday afternoons. Matrons patrolled the halls, ensuring that doors were held open with the six-inch "parental hooks," and that a women and her visitor "kept three feet on the ground." Lamont didn't admit women, yet many math classes were held there. Because students had to pay to eat at the other college, dining was virtually single...
...hope. Jordan, after all, is the man who once worked with Beethoven playing in the background, and who fired a fellow just when the cannons went off in Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. A man who can do that has got some class even if he will not admit...