Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect of all this, even more clearly than in the Watkins film, is distance. We do not get close to the characters at all this way for two reasons. First, Cassavetes is unwilling to admit that he is making a film, unwilling to admit the limitations of two hours of two dimensions on canvas. The reality that has to be created within those limitations is its own reality, the reality of the film, not the reality of people who just happen to walk in front of a camera. For what Cassavetes was trying to do, the most effective thing would...
...increased effort in all parts of the University to make it easier for students from various disadvantaged groups, especially disadvantaged black students, to attend this institution. This was not a wholly new development. The College has been working with mounting vigor for more than a decade to find and admit more students of promise from urban and rural wastelands. The Law School, the Divinity School, and (in cooperation with Yale and Columbia) the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and also the Business School, have in recent years conducted summer programs for disadvantaged minority groups of college age to identify...
...onetime air force commander was elected three years ago, following the coup that toppled Victor Paz Estenssoro. At the time, Bolivians predicted that he was politically too naive to survive longer than six months. With only a year to go before Barrientos completes a full term, even critics now admit that the handsome, mercurial chief executive has put his stamp on the country as have few be fore...
When pinned down, none of the radicals and their sympathizers will admit that the nation, in the presence of ruthless enemies, can afford to disband its armed forces. But the question of who is to man the armed forces is left unanswered. The traditional precept of a broad-based citizen soldier army, with the dangers and sacrifices of military duty shared equally by all able-bodied men, is conveniently forgotten. There is no hue and cry to make the draft law fair and equitable or to provide an acceptable substitute for ROTC, if needed a substitute can be found...
Uneasy Marriage. Yet the authors predict that the 1968 setback is temporary. "When the movement takes the offensive again, its dynamism will return," they claim. "One day the barricades will surely be raised again." But they admit that this will not happen until long-established barriers between French workers and intellectuals are torn down. The May events proved that the marriage between the two factions was at best merely convenient...