Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bell-ringing enthusiasts admit the difficulty of giving a concert which would meet the approval of Cambridge ears. Because the zvon is based on a six-tone Eastern scale, it cannot render the gentle strains of "Fair Harvard" or other melodious selections played by ordinary carillions...
...foolish to admit integration is coming and then delay for the sake of delay. The time to start working towards it is now; the day has arrived when Southerners must study both the problem it represents and the even greater problems it will bring. "This is not a question of what we want to do, this is a fact," a superintendent of schools in a deep South city recently told his teachers, "this is a fact, and we must start now to divest ourselves of any predjudice against the Negro race and to teach each child regardless...
...London, where he made his first success outside the U.S. 23 years ago, Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, trim, happy and 55, returned with his New Orleans-style trumpet. Louis had not been back since 1932, mostly because England and the U.S. mutually refused to admit foreign bands (TIME, March 26). This time he was welcomed on an exchange agreement. happily took his All-Stars into cavernous (capacity: 8,000) Empress Hall to play two shows a night for ten nights. The band was seated on a slowly revolving stage in the center of the arena, and for a full hour...
...meet her as few women have been met. Hundreds of news men and photographers moiled for vantage as she stepped off the plane, and a crowd churned about her for more than two hours before she could take evasive Cadillaction. But Hollywood was not yet prepared to admit that she knew anything about acting. The part she was playing in Bus Stop, the argument ran, was the same part she had always played: the dippy chippie. And in the studio commissary there was a good deal of low voiced derision about "the Bernhardt in a Bikini...
...such a windfall is still the exception to the rule. "The number of those who give up is enormous," L'Oeil finds. "We have to admit it: the Gauguins have always been the exceptions . . . The cozy apartment, the car, the refrigerator have killed many careers...