Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Implementing the plan poses several problems. Faculty members might understandably be reluctant to admit pass-fail students to their courses if there were enough regular applicants to fill them. The departments, which exercise authority over concentration requirements, might simply refuse to count pass-fail courses in a person's major. Lastly, it is still unclear just what the letter-grade equivalents will be for "pass" and "fail...
...American artist that poured out in Jarrell's poems. He was recovering or perhaps failing to recover from a nervous breakdown that October in North Carolina. "When I last saw him, not long before his death," Arendt writes, "the laughter was almost gone and he was ready to admit defeat...
Sexuality is a specific area of moral concern in which psychiatry has helped religion redefine its concept of sin. In the past, Christian moralists almost unanimously regarded fornication as an unqualified evil. Now, some churchmen are inclined to admit that it may be morally permissible, in those rare situations when it satisfies a true need between two adults who fulfill each other. Says Dr. Edward Craig Hobbs of the Episcopal Church Divinity School of the Pacific: "The whole matter of sexual morality is now subject to a different understanding that comes from psychiatry and ultimately from Freud." The Rev. Richard...
...indiscriminate slaughter of hundreds of millions of innocent persons through total nuclear war could clearly be wrong. In my mind, even resolving to wage total war under some set of conditions poses moral problems. Although I admit numerous doubts, I feel it may even be wrong to participate actively in the creation of improved instruments for waging total war. And my work on this volume certainly constituted participation, however indirect, in the creation of such instruments...
...greeted in expected fashion. Wags suggested that his theme song ought to be Somebody Up There Likes Me. He made headlines in 1950 when, after a divorce, he married Felicia Schiff Warburg, member of one of New York's leading banking families. Nowadays, however, even the old skeptics admit that Bob Sarnoff has attended strictly to business. Over the years, his authority and judgment have been reflected more and more in the complex decisions that are of vital concern to the mammoth corporation. Though NBC still stands second to CBS in the TV ratings, RCA completely dominates the color...