Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Denmark "cannot meet its NATO promises, and we admit the reasons are political," says Denmark's Minister of Defense...
...largely a matter of contribution from the Harvard community in general, not an achievement of the Advocate as an organization. There is some truth in this attitude. Much of the credit must go to a University in which, as Donald Hall says, "One student in three, if pressed, will admit that he is a poet." Perhaps more miraculous, however, and equally important, is that there are enough interested readers about to support an exclusively literary magazine, especially one filled solely by undergraduate pieces...
...couple of months the river bank should once again become a Coney Island of towels, softballs, books, and conscientiously suntanned bodies. Perhaps too, some undergraduates will renew their attempt to persuade all the college to attend something called an all-college weekend. Meanwhile, up in the Yard, Harvard will admit its biggest and brilliantest freshman class yet, and will then set about lending them enough money to pay their way through. Dean Bundy will still be busy counting his anticipated $200-bills, but if the season really affects him he may decide to postpone the next tuition rise--"indeed...
Morris is the first to admit that much of his inspiration comes from Pacific Coast landscape. To find it, he need go no farther than the front door of his cliffside house, where he lives with his wife, Sculptress Hilda Morris, and ten-year-old son David. "Frequently fog makes islands of trees, very Oriental. This dissolves into misty atmosphere and double horizons. There's a vertical and horizontal thing going on, with the trees making the verticals." But Morris punctures the critics who have made a cult of the North west's Orient-influenced mysticism: "I guess...
...versatility, the tinkering curiosity, the sublime belief in the answerability of all questions-but all that with a Philadelphia accent of thrift and humor. Even crusty New Englander John Adams, seemingly too patrician to accept a self-made boy at his true worth, had to admit: "There was scarcely a peasant or a citizen, a valet de chambre, coachman or footman, a lady's chambermaid or a scullion in a kitchen, who ... did not consider him a friend to human kind...