Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lindsay is the first to admit that the air and the streets are still dirty, the city's sources of new income meager, the ghettos wallowing in misery. What makes him different is that he really believes that something can be done about it -practically a political heresy in cynical New York City. Chipper and resilient at 45, even if his fair hair has greyed a bit along with his image, Lindsay is often accused of being a cross between Don Quixote and a spinsterish schoolmarm because of his sometimes rigid righteousness and such of his fancies...
Lefty or Righty. Neither coach has any complaint about Alcindor's offensive ability, although Lew is still only about 45% accurate when he is shooting lefthanded, compared with 70% righthanded. Both, however, admit that Lew's defense still leaves something to be desired. "He needs work," says Naulls. "But I'll tell you this-when Lew Alcindor wants to guard somebody, he can guard anybody." Duke's Bubas will attest to that: against the Blue Devils last week, Alcindor collected 16 rebounds and blocked eight enemy shots...
Kandinsky felt free to admit humor into his cartoonlike paintings. In Resurrection (see opposite page), a kneeling figure with acidic red, green and black tresses holds his hands over his ears while the trumpet of the Apocalypse sounds. There is a wit, a gay stylization, a fluid jumble of forms without regard to gravity that Marc Chagall continued in his secularized icons on canvas...
...power. He will be able to use a moderate-sized military force without considering the domestic consequences. This argument, however, can be turned around. Once the United States does get involved in a war, the middle classes find reasons for supporting the war, and it becomes politically dangerous to admit mistakes or attempt to withdraw. It is often said that the only way we can get out of Vietnam is by changing Administraitons. A change of Administration preceded the Korean cease-fire. If this assumption is true, then it is wise to give the President a professional army because...
...know what's going to happen," he said, "but I must admit that I don't at all mind the idea of eating lunch with all those pretty girls...