Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your cover story on Jimmy Brown [Nov. 26] is enlightening, incisive, colorful and above all, fair. As painful as it may be for Brown worshipers to admit, Superman is not too super as a person. But this of course does not detract from his athletic greatness. Your writer has come closest yet to putting the finger on what makes Jimmy...
...subsequent decisions, the court has slowly forced the states to observe a new standard. A confession is "voluntary," and therefore admissible, said the court, only if it reflects "a free choice to admit, or deny or to refuse an answer." It is involuntary, and inadmissible, if the suspect's will to silence was "overborne" by any pressure-mental as well as physical. The court voided one man's confession because he had not been allowed to call his family, and that of a woman because the police had threatened to take away her children. Indeed, since...
Erhardt himself plays Andrew Undershaft, and does so forcefully. However, I would question his interpretation. Undershaft should be an obnoxious man. When the audience is forced to admit that what he says is true, it should be regretfully, as Shaw puts it, "with a pain in the self-esteem." We should begrudge the nobility of Undershaft's thought. As Erhardt played the role, his manners were already too noble, his voice too Stentorian...
...year ago Americans who were ignorant about Rhodesian problems would say to me: "I hate to admit it, but I really don't know where Rhodesia is." Because of the present crisis there is now much more interest in and knowledge of the Rhodesian problem, yet there are still some American misconceptions about Rhodesia...
Although I consider myself to be a moderate and have tried to be as objective as possible in this article, I admit that I am emotionally involved in this particular area because I am a Rhodesian by birth. The best hope I can see for the future is that my generation may turn out to be more enlightened than that of my elders. They saw the African in his primitive state when they first settled in Rhodesia and cannot quite conceive of him now as ruling the country. An example of this was my sister's bringing an African girl...