Search Details

Word: admitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...must admit that I was sorely disappointed by your portrayal of the graduating Class of 1968. I ask you, what percentage of the graduates look like that long-haired, bearded, psychedelic "freak-out" on your cover? Our society is sick with the pseudo intellectuals, acid heads and hippies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 21, 1968 | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...side of old-fashioned peasant virtue. But even Stalin was not above endorsing a bit of pragmatic promiscuity when the times dictated. In 1944, with the population decimated by war, Stalin wanted to boost the birth rate and decreed that men would no longer be obliged either to admit paternity or provide any financial support for children born out of wedlock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Restoring the Patronymic | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...force, in a sense Senak still is on the job. Last October, he was driving in Detroit with two prostitutes-one white, one black. He says they jumped into his car before he could stop them; they say he invited them. Whatever the case, all occupants of the car admit that a fight ensued. Senak pulled a knife, and both girls ended up badly cut. They reported the incident to the police but refused to press charges. "The reason I got in trouble all over again," Senak told Hersey, "was because I was overzealous. It was my instinct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: The Heart of Hate | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...French-made quasi documentary implacably opposed to the war in Southeast Asia. Green Berets is a piece of Hollywood celluloid fiction that clearly assumes the righteousness of the U.S. cause. Despite their divergent views, the two movies resemble each other far more than their makers would care to admit. Both preach to the converted; both assume that moral indignation is sufficient material for a scenario. And both leave the viewer with the conclusion that in a war movie, as in a war, the first casualty is usually common sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Far from Viet Nam and Green Berets | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...violent people." Said Combat of Paris: "America is mad." The Times of India, where politically inspired mob action is not uncommon, found something "radically wrong" with a society that "harbors" fanatics. "The American society is sick," said the Frankfurter Rundschau, "sicker than most Americans want to admit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: Caricature of the U.S. | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

Previous | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | Next