Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eisenstadt's chief opposition comes from the Hicks-Lee-O'Connor axis of the committee, which has refused to admit either the existence of racial imbalance or the need for constructive action. Many of the more ardent Civil Rights leaders are also hostile to Eisenstadt, regarding him as a political opportunist with no strong convictions. While they may vote for him, they have never trusted him as one of their...
...planned the Peace Corps admit that they had very little idea what the volunteer's life overseas would be like, and even less about how to train him for it. But they expectd that there would be many men in the universities who knew enough about particular countries and problems of development to design and direct effective training programs...
...Protestants, this kind of ecumenical disobedience is a violation of church rule. Catholicism's canon law forbids interCommunion, although an exception is made for Eastern Rite Catholics, who under certain circumstances may receive - the sacraments in Orthodox churches. While some Protestant groups -such as the Disciples of Christ-admit any baptized believer to the Communion table, most take the view that admittance to the sacrament should be preceded by a confession of faith...
...heady impetuosity that sometimes flawed the playing of his early years. He thrives by infusing a dash of improvisation, "a drop of fresh blood," into each performance. He will even experiment with new fingerings "that suddenly occur to me" in the middle of a performance. "It is dangerous, I admit," he says, "but that is the way music develops." As a result, says Pianist Rudolf Serkin, "his music is becoming more reflective, but at the same time it is becoming younger. It's almost as if he's playing everything for the first time...
...were refused seats at an anti-salvery convention in London. Mrs. Friedan foresees "institutional improvements" that will "help women avoid martyr-like choices;" business firms, she insists, will adopt flexible hiring practices and working schedules so women can "retire for a few months" to have children, colleges will admit part-time graduate students, the federal government will finance reliable day-care nurseries for working mothers. She sees this glorious revolution, yet cannot cite any real "institutional improvements" that have been made and contest paradoxically, that "government will do something for women only when women themselves do something...