Word: admitting
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...this image is far from complete, as Berelson and Steiner are the first to point out. A certain "richness," they admit, "has somehow fallen through the present screen of the behavioral sciences"-the joy and pain of life, the variety of men, the central human concerns of love, hate, death, ethics and courage. But the image is bound to change; the behavioral sciences are not yet a century old. In the end, say the confident authors, the new sciences will make "an indispensable contribution to the naturalistic description of human nature-the contribution of hard knowledge tested by the methods...
...that the faculty opposed Interim, one girl wrote to the newspaper appealing to the faculty to "please define a successful Interim." Another girl, busy but unhappy, bemoaned the school's ban on organized activities, like club meetings. "Everyone really dislikes Interim," she said in confidence, "but is ashamed to admit...
Combination tickets, which will admit boys and their dates to all events, will go on sale March...
...reason why many Americans opt for vacations abroad is that almost 10% of the better U.S. hotels do not admit Jews. In the winter resorts of Florida and Arizona alone, there are 80 hotels that exclude Jewish-or Jewish-looking guests; 22 of them are in one city, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Nonetheless, B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League reported at its 51st annual meeting in Manhattan last week that there has been a dramatic retreat from discriminatory practices over the past six years. Some 60% of the U.S. hotels that overtly excluded Jews...
Whimpering Puppies. In The Golden Fruits, the delivery of a critical opinion can be an appeal for love-or an attempt at assassination. A fashionable author, who has been unwise enough to admit he does not like the book, is forced to cling to a dowdy female guest for support. Even as he does so, he burns with shame and a sense of "degrading promiscuity." As for the woman, "she listens to him," Miss Sarraute writes, with the "face of a rapt fanatic . . . and an inadequately furnished head into which come to settle perhaps, taking up all the room...