Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of the good citizens. There is one reason for them, and you know what it is: the black man is tired of being pushed around, and he has decided to push back hard. This isn't news to anyone, though everyone refused to admit it, but what we are doing in these riots isn't any worse than what the white man has done to us and is still doing to us. The white man just does it in a different...
...many compulsive gamblers admit that their strongest drive is to lose, not win. The classic example of this self-destructive type was Dostoevsky, whose incentive to write was often to get money for gambling; when he had it, he would boast that he was going to give fate "a punch on the nose!" Fate, of course, always ducked. In Dostoevsky and Parricide, Freud suggested that for the writer fate represented the father figure from whom he was asking punishment...
...Arab art. An Arab refugee does not tell the facts; he utters an epic of lament: "Words cannot describe the disaster we have suffered!" An Arab general does not say he will attack with 50 tanks; he is more likely to mention 50,000. Arabs do not want to admit Israelis can shoot; they say enemy guns use a new "homing device." Damascus radio is not just critical of U.S. policy; it depicts "fat, mad" President Johnson "drinking Arab blood" and warns, "O Johnson, drinking blood will destroy your stomach...
...know, because men are human and do not like to concede, even to themselves, that they were wrong. Those who urged our intervention were associated with what could one day be regarded as the greatest miscalculation in our history. They remain in command. They are naturally reluctant to admit that their view of the world -- the view which counselled this vast effort -- has been shown to be wrong. And so, aided by the military momentum of the event itself, they continue. That...
...find myself also more than a little critical of those of my fellow critics who admit to a feeling of frustration and defeat in their efforts to influence the Administration on Vietnam. For one thing they have not been without influence. On the contrary, they have had a great deal...