Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monetary reward during the week-long celebration for Nobel Prize winners. "Bridgman (Physics Nobel Prize in 1946) has told the pretty well what to expect; it will be quite an affair. It's been so frantic around here I don't know if I'm excited , but I must admit I'll be glad to get away--after all you don't get the unless you go to Sweden...
Essential to such a system of censorship is a feeling of cooperation. Most booksellers, according to Thomas M. Moroney, manager of the Old Corner Bookshop in Boston, are "...not interested in making cases out of these books. I'll admit frankly that I and my publishers are interested chiefly in making money. We don't want to get wound up in these things...
Chief antagonist of the Board of Directors was Lewis D. Gilbert, who owns stock in 600-odd corporations, including 12 shares in Macy's. Gilbert, questioning just how many of the store's Board of Directors knew about such things as merchandising, forced President Jack I. Straus '21 to admit several of the directors were not familiar with retailing...
...sort of manna from heaven idea of asking the Government to finance some Fellowships itself. Such a proposal has firm backing in precedent. Large corporations, trade unions, and the Army have found it profitable to ship promising men here, prepaid, for a year of advanced study. Government agencies, which admit the excellence of Littauer's training program, would like to give promising recruits year of educational leave with pay. If they did, these men could study at Littauer without taking a slice in income...
More important was the problem of religious individuality. Claudel gloried in Catholicism as a "closed system," and frankly stated that because "departures from [Catholic] doctrine involve the soul in terrible risk of eternal damnation, [the church] cannot admit what people call liberty of thought . . ." Gide, bred in a tradition of Huguenot Protestantism, could never accept this view. In one of his rare offensives, he wrote Claudel that he could not abide those Catholics who "use the crucifix as if it were a bludgeon...