Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good case; but the United States too often does not present a good case. It spends its time weighing, pondering, considering; and in the meantime the opportunity for scoring a psychological victory is past. Or it plays the ostrich game; buries its head in the sand and refuses to admit anything has happened. You don't counter something with nothing; you counter something with something better. You intercept the pass and run with the opponent's ball...
...restrictionist" policy at Harvard? Surely one reason, and an important one, is the emphasis on quality. In this connection, the following observation is of some interest. In the thirties is used to be said that Harvard had to scrape the bottom of the barrel in order to admit a normal size class. Now we hear that we have several times as many good applicants as we can admit...
Capitalism evidently involves doing what comes naturally, Red China's rulers reluctantly admit. They just can't seem to root out its surviving tendencies. Red Boss Mao Tse-tung has made only two big speeches this year. The first, made last summer but published only last month, decreed a drastic stepping-up of farm collectivization (TIME, Dec. 5). The second speech, made six weeks ago, was called "Socialist Transformation of Private Industry and Commerce." It still has not been made public, but its tenor can be judged by a sudden spate of propaganda on the evils of free...
...programs are kept small--none can admit more than 20 students each year to the two-year program--but the small number of students is no indication of the great variety of courses open to these potential area specialists. In the East Asia program, for example, there are 51 possible courses scattered through various departments--History, Government, General Education, Fine Arts, Anthropology, Economics, Social Relations, and Far Eastern Languages and Literatures. It may seem a big jump from "Advanced Mandarin Conversation" to "The Representation of Nature in Europe and Asiatic Art," but to the East Asia student, the gap merely...
Though they hate to admit...