Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enjoy the applause (writers receive no such recognition in Argentina, he explains), and turned around three times on the way off the stage to respond with grateful abbreviated bows. He tells himself that these people have come to see what a blind foreign poet is like. Borges won't admit (and won't believe) that he's one of the great figures of international literature...
Prize & Praise. In the end, however, Allsop has to admit that economic necessity by no means explains why men take to the road. Within the hobo there usually lurked a slightly mad Huck Finn-a fellow with his own restless ideology. He was a tough, radical, reckless, sardonic character who was a hardbitten distant cousin to Walt ("I tramp a perpetual journey") Whitman...
...situation will remain uncertain at least until the latter part of May, when all applications are due and many acceptances will already have been received. At that time, the Faculty will decide exactly how large a class it wants, and admit more students or draw up a large waiting list...
...Harvard Undergraduate Council discussed last night the merits of a proposal recommending that the Faculty admit students to several of their committees...
...highest of character is clearly to learn from the past, to admit one's mistakes, and to act on that admission. The record of our East Asian involvement is long and complex; we have done unwise things, we have done hard things, we have done good things--and there is much more good...