Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Short Cut to Hell (Paramount). He, mechanically: "I'm not a person. I'm a gun . . . It's my trade. My profession. I shoot people." She, tenderly: "There's so much more to you than you'll admit. 1 know it ... Your hands . . . they could be the hands of an artist...
First, Exeter is more like Harvard than any other school. The Exonian, having reached the top of a very select and highly competitive group after four years of struggle, is reluctant to admit that he is on the bottom of the pile again. While he is no different from his classmates in this respect, he finds it easier to avoid recognizing his new lowly position...
While Ross persisted in expecting precise, orderly, machinelike efficiency from Thurber, Thurber persisted in trying to write New Yorker prose. One day Ross stormed in on him. "You've been writing," he exploded in accusation, "I don't know how in hell you found time ... I admit I didn't want you to." Thereupon he wrote Thurber out of the imagined society of efficient journalists and treated him as a sort of basket case. "I was a completely different man," writes Thurber ". . . one of the trio about whom he fretted and fussed continually-the others were Andy...
Most dealers today admit with chagrin that they at first misjudged their man. Their impression was that Niarchos was buying to cover his walls, or as investments. Today such feelings have given way to respect in the light of Niarchos' hard bargaining, retentive memory and grim determination that has had his agents stalking important paintings for years. "If I had to name two characteristics of Niarchos," says one international art dealer, "they would be that he prefers 'strong pictures,' and that he had good taste, or good advice, right from the beginning...
From Harvard's point of view, and from the nation's there is a very definite need for conscious planning by the Admissions Committee in this situation. Unfortunately, up to now they admit, "This decline does not indicate any conscious planning." There is a need for awareness, and a need for action. If the Admissions Committee cannot find enough able high school students with the present staff, then more Admissions officers would certainly be a worthwhile investment. The Alumni groups, moreover, must be given further encouragement to look for talent in their areas. While application fees are a method...