Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over the fear of making mistakes," says one of the President's closest associates. "We can't be afraid to admit we've been wrong." Rarely has Johnson made such an admission-as John F. Kennedy did after the Bay of Pigs. Quite the contrary. Last week, for example, with problems swirling all around him, he told the National Co-op Conference in Washington: "With all of our complaints, with all of our sufferings, our inconveniences, our setbacks, our frustrations, I think that all of us have good enough judgment to know that...
Roman Catholics are confessing less but profiting from it more. In the past two years, U.S. parish priests admit, attendance at the confession box-once a Saturday ritual for legions of devout Catholics-has fallen noticeably. "I would say that confessions are at least a third less than they used to be," says Monsignor James A. Davin of St. Bernard Church in Mount Lebanon, Pa. At the same time, many renewal-minded Catholics are approaching the confessional in a more meaningful way-not as a mechanical means of cleansing their souls of sin but as a life-giving encounter with...
Stabiles in Harlem. But as he is the first to admit, it is the public's infatuation with the fast-unfolding art scene, magnified by massive dissemination through almost instantaneous communication and reproduction, that has prepared the way for acceptance of art as a natural and stimulating part of both private and public life...
...trial according to the report, crop loss from hail was reduced to 3.1% in the protected areas, compared with a 19% loss in adjacent unprotected fields. In some areas, the loss was cut to a tenth of normal. Even better results would have been obtained, the Russians admit, had the operation been better planned. As it was, there were frequently shortages of shells, and firing had to be delayed at crucial moments to avoid hitting aircraft...
...sesquicentennial celebration, he sounded off on one lack that he considers paramount. Said Griswold: "It has often been said, for a smile, that legal education sharpens the mind by narrowing it. To my mind, there is more truth to this than we have been willing to admit. The methods fostered at this school and widely adopted elsewhere do have a tendency to exalt dialectical skill, to focus the mind on narrow issues, and to obscure the fact that no reasoning, however logical, can rise above the premises on which it is based. If the Harvard Law School, through its faculty...