Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smith girl's lack of concern for her own individuality may be disconcerting to some, but taken on her own terms it is perfectly understandable. "We are here to get a certain kind of education, and preparation for a certain kind of life," one girl said. "Whether we admit it or not, we consciously came here for that purpose. We are all after much the same things--why shouldn't we act similarly...
...University now refuses to make public the figures which were compiled and dismisses the issue as "a very delicate matter." Whether the University will admit it or not, it is apparent that the Negroes employed here are either very small in number or generally out of sight. "Speaking off the record," one University official confides, "I am in favor of hiring Negroes." The fact that an administrator would be unwilling to make such a statement publicly intimates that, if Harvard is not dying of hypocrisy, the confusion of its bureaucratic sprawl is paralyzing...
...never seen America. "My entire knowledge of American music is from the gramophone records I listen to in Parma," the 78-year-old professor explained. "I have been to America only in my dreams. I will be happy if my opera is performed again, but I must admit that my greatest ambition is to write music for the films of Walt Disney...
...side of an all-male clergy. Outside Orthodoxy, the Anglican Communion and Roman Catholicism, however, the desperate need for clergy has given many churchmen cause to think twice about the validity of custom. Now at least 50 of the 168 churches belonging to the World Council of Churches admit women to the ministry. Barbro is the fifth of seven women to be elevated by the Swedish state Church to the Lutheran priesthood since Parliament authorized such an appointment...
...course, still catch far more men than the smaller ones. They have more jobs to offer, as well as old-name prestige, big money-up to $625 a month for a beginning engineer-and the security that attaches to a well-diversified company. But such giants as Jersey Standard admit that some executives frequently feel a sense of frustration in the big corporation. The chief lure of small companies is greater responsibility in a hurry. Says Boston's Norman Krim. who swapped a Raytheon vice-presidency for the presidency of a discount house called Radio Shack: "You can move...