Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proportions not felt since the Dreyfus Affair at the turn of the century. It has strained ties between Paris and its onetime protectorate, Morocco, exposed France's security forces to charges of either dark collusion or woeful ineptitude, and forced an angry Charles de Gaulle to admit to the world that the much-vaunted probity of his Fifth Republic is badly tarnished...
...make the following comments in reference to the proposal to admit Radcliffe students to Lamont Library...
Situation ethics does admit to one absolute: love. In any moral decision, Fletcher argues, the key question is: "What does God's love demand of me in this particular situation?" By stressing the demand of love, situation ethics is at once more lenient and more stringent than law morality. It can command hard decisions as well as easy ones-acceptance of martyrdom, for example, when law morality would permit surrender or compromise. It can also say that certain acts are immoral which law ethics would consider tech nically valid. To the situationist, says Fletcher, "even a transient sex liaison...
...security advisers again assembled in Texas, outdoors under a warm sun.* The advice was unanimous: an announced pause in the bombing, then the quiet peace offensive. L.B.J. quickly vetoed the no-bombing public declaration. "For me to stand up and announce a bombing pause," he asserted, "would be to admit that this was a propaganda circus." With that, the President fell silent, and his advisers left the ranch convinced he was going to reject the whole idea...
Like most people in the Harvard community, both Old and New Snobs are products of comfortable and usually affluent homes. (Even the University Administration, despite its efforts to recruit poor and minority-group students, must admit that Harvard is still predominantly a school for the rich and the near-rich.) The Old Snobbery consisted of a set of attitudes still often associated with the rich: political conservatism, which then meant violent and derisive opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, and a scorn for and lack of interest in the problems of members of minority groups...