Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of vocal writing, in which there are only angles instead of lines, highly ungrateful. The chief interest in these songs for me lies in rhythmic precision; and this in turn is best achieved by instruments, not the voice. The first and third songs seemed wholly unrewarding. I will admit that the second song has considerable merit; but even here the merit accrues not by means of the medium but in spite of it. I should like to hear this music with say, a clarinet playing the vocal part...
Alfonso is frank to admit that he also has another healthy advantage over many competitors. "I have the good fortune to have a private income. Without private funds, drivers have problems with sponsors and such." As if his income were not enough to keep his American-born wife Carol, a son and a daughter in proper style, the marquis earns about $40,000 a year on the international racing circuit...
Matter of Time. For all his firsts in heart surgery, Charles Bailey is the first to admit the difficulty of proving the results of coronary operations. He is impatiently awaiting delivery of an X-ray machine which will take pictures at 1/500 sec. and, with radiopaque dyes, will show precisely where and how extensively a coronary artery is blocked-or unblocked. This will make it possible to judge with far more accuracy how much good an operation has done. Thanks to the prospects of such machines, surgeons who have so far held aloof from coronary disease are now showing interest...
Dunster is not without its shortcomings, as even its most vehement booster would admit. In recent years the House composition has been overbalanced toward the sciences and social sciences, particularly government, with a corresponding scarcity of humanities concentrators...
...branches in Washington, D.C., Boston and Madison, Wis. U.S. membership is still small-not more than 200. In some quarters Opus Dei is believed to be a chosen instrument for liberalizing the reactionary Spanish church and possibly even the Franco regime itself. Members heatedly deny any political role, but admit their strong liberal leanings. Said one Opus Dei priest in the U.S. last week: "We did not like the idea in Spain that all higher learning must be government-approved and government-controlled. So four years ago we set up our own university in Navarra. The government did not openly...