Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...witnessed and his pity for its victims; and though it may seem strange to some, his relation of the incidents was absolutely without racial bias. The fact is that in those days no one who did not condemn race riots would have come out of his hole to admit it. Indeed, until recently it would have been difficult to find anyone of intelligence, or even coherent of speech, to express any justification for such outrages...
...congress, even Archbishop Iakovos had to admit that the experiment had been a failure. "We offered cooperation, but there was no response," he said. "We found that what separates America and Greece is not just the ocean. It is the mentality." The return to the homeland did not help the cause of cultural Hellenization in American Orthodoxy. One resolution, approved overwhelmingly by the congress, called for more English in the church's worship...
...many clergymen seem to have experimented with marijuana-or at least are willing to admit having done so. Yet it is generally agreed that students in many of the nation's seminaries have experimented with pot. Says a professor at one theological school in the San Francisco area: "Are you kidding? There probably isn't a divinity school in the country that doesn't have the problem...
...Durants admit they can find no substantial change in man's basic nature in the uncountable centuries since he first appeared out of the murk of prehistory. All technological advances actually can be written off "as new means of achieving old ends-the acquisition of goods, the pursuit of one sex by the other (or by the same), the overcoming of competition, the fighting of wars...
There has been precious little talk, and none in high places, about how America should rethink its role in world affairs, although the usual lip service is paid to the need for a change. There has been a refusal to admit that the next Administration must infuse billions of dollars into our cities to accomplish what the platform rhetoric claims the GOP wants to accomplish...