Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smile crosses Rudenstine's face as he realizes that what an administrator considers "constructive" may not coincide with what a protestor considers "necessary." "I have to admit that the possibilities of dealing with the students are terrifying, as well as exciting," he says. "But my hope is stronger than the nightmares...
While it cannot admit it publicly, the Canadian government is reported to welcome the flow of Americans here and is unlikely to deny landed immigrant status to many. For years one of the critical problems the country has been saddled with is the flow of brains and talent out of the country to the United States where wages are higher and prospects brighter. Draft resistance may reverse the flow...
...American Left learned first that it was not enough just to sing and carry signs for Peace. It learned second that it was also not enough to sit down and organize against war. The Left has had to admit that material self-interest must precede material sacrifice...
...years to improve language proficiency has been called the most significant force in linguistic development in the nation today. Still, for one whose Spanish still halts after a year in Latin America, sensitivity is indeed a distressing problem. The Peace Corps, spectacularly successful in some language programs, must still admit too many disappointments. In many countries, particularly in Africa, fluency in indigenous languages has for most Volunteers been total illusion. But very recent developments in language immersion do promise substantial progress from wish to reality in both exotic and romance languages...
...other hand, even enthusiastic language instructors admit that the theoretically valuable educational experience "doesn't take" with some students. Forcing these students to slog through a second year of painful confusion after a bad first year seems a cruel and unnatural punishment. What Dean Ford calls the "cultural shock value" of trying to piece together thought in another language should register almost as strongly on a student after one year as after...