Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most part, avoided the brutal homogeneities of the concentration camp and the instant orthodoxies that are revisable at the death of a Mao. During our first two centuries, a raw continent made us flexible and responsive. Our New World remains more raw and more unexplored than we will admit...
...last week, he worked for several hours on the 1977-78 budget, a proposal for a $10 billion tax cut and the State of the Union message that he will deliver on Jan. 12. He also made the surprising announcement that he would ask Congress to enact legislation to admit Puerto Rico, now a commonwealth whose residents have U.S. citizenship, as a full-fledged state...
...Nobody wants to admit they're paranoid," David S. Goodman, a third-year student who remembered his first year as the worst of his life, said. "If you don't feign calmness, you go out the door," he added...
...that although he may morally support AA and believes Harvard is a better place for minority students (whom he emphasizes to mean only blacks) he is unwilling to transform verbal commitments into action. He attacks the mechanism to achieve equal opportunity as a bureaucratic hassle. He staunchly refuses to admit Harvard's noncompliance or its begrudged attitude toward AA. AA is viewed as obstructing departmental autonomy, usurping departmental authority and violating the tenet that universities are special places where government should not tamper with the education of "mind and body." This stand logically gives rise to doubts about...
...Semanticist S.I. Hayakawa enrolled in a special Harvard University program for freshman Congressmen. As a former no-nonsense professor himself, the California Senator-elect should have made an attentive student. Alas, during seminars he was caught napping. At least Hayakawa had a novel excuse: "I admit I may have dozed through some of the sessions, but I haven't had a good rest since the campaign...