Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...priest in an inner shrine. Said one elegant Parisienne: "Dior is a great publicist, a kind of Barnum of fashion. He has superb workrooms, everything is beautifully and interestingly done. But the only real designer is Balenciaga." Son of a Spanish boat captain, 61-year-old Balenciaga refuses to admit the press to his showings, avoids all Paris society, appeals to women who like his austere, sculptural designs. Enormously respected by his fellow designers ("We all call Cristobal 'seigneur,' " says Pierre Balmain), Balenciaga usually scorns to institute a new "line" for every season, but last week he startled...
...economics of Broadway make it nearly imperative to seat 1200 to 1800 people or even more, and the production must be large, loud, and brassy to attract a big audience. Yet the most worthwhile plays in the dramatic repertoire will neither admit of such elaborate production nor draw the kind of audience necessary. Thus off-Broadway is not a substitute for Broadway, but is complementary, and is in many cases an improvement...
...usual stakes: everything the nobleman said he owned against the common bumf that fills a boy's pockets. Invariably the boy would win in a breeze, and the no-count count, pitiful and terrible in his monomania, would stamp off in a rage because the boy would not admit that he was lucky, nothing more...
Thirty-three years ago a young Englishwoman asked to do graduate study in astronomy at Harvard. The Chairman of the Physics Department, of which astronomy was then a sub-division, was reluctant to admit her, saying he didn't want any women in his department. "But after all," the now middle-aged mother of three explains, "I had come all the way from England and they couldn't just send me home...
...months later insurance investigators got suspicious when, in the company's list of assets, they turned up some bonds which ICT refused to value. Insurance commissioners refused to admit the bonds as assets, looked further and found other losses that had not been shown previously. At week's end the commission put ICT temporarily out of business, gave it two weeks to raise cash to straighten its troubles or be closed for good...