Word: admittedly
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...Force. During the Viet Nam War, he was a strong advocate of bombing as a means of keeping down the numbers of U.S. ground troops that had to be committed and of forcing the Communists to negotiate a peace. He avoids talking about the war, except to admit that he made mistakes. Says he: "A lesson we learned from Viet Nam is that we should be very cautious about intervening in any place where there's a poor political base for our presence." Brown also learned a more personal lesson. Says a colleague: "Viet Nam showed him there are some...
...lisps, their future careers--from businessman to dope pusher. At another point, subtitles disclose what Annie and he are really thinking underneath their pretentious banter about aesthetics. Best of all is Allen's accosting of passersby on the street to ask them about his troubles. One contented couple straightfacedly admit that their content stems from the fact that they are silly, boring and vacuous...
...question, further, the validity of the Freshman Council itself. Many council members, although they will not admit it, use their position as a good activity for graduate school applications. They lack a sincere interest in student affairs. This is illustrated by the council's ineffectiveness. The council, for example, has never passed any of the substantive proposals of the council's own Advocacy Committee. One such proposal would give an entry the right to recall a Freshman Council member by a two-thirds vote. Needless to say, the proposal fell on deaf ears...
Nina Hillgarth, GSAS director of special students and the unofficial head of minority recruitment and admissions at the school, said the GSAS was able to admit more recruited applicants because the Education Testing Service (ETS) this year improved its minority locator service, a program the GSAS admissions office uses in its minority recruiting...
...general position; indeed, they form the overwhelming preponderance of professors. Many of them work closely with the government. The university, being tied so closely by money, direction and participation, not surprisingly reflects the basic power relationships of the larger society. As the university is presently constituted, we must admit that in some instance Kissinger would fit quite nicely--as would Rusk, Rostow, and others. But we do not acquiesce to the present state of the university or society. In our position as students, it is imperative that we struggle to make the university a truly free and open place...