Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cater to artistic platitudes like the work of this "fantastic" Steinberg? Somewhere along the line, artists apparently decided that beauty and expressiveness in a work are old hat, and by masquerading behind secure parodies they can get away with a minimum of thought and effort. O.K., let's admit the world is crazy. But does that mean our art and culture should repress creativity and optimism and thereby give in to absurdity? Steinberg has proved to me that he and the other moderns are bored...
Though Nixon makes no such dramatic admission of error as he had in his televised interviews with David Frost ("I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden with me for the rest of my life"), he does admit that all his public speeches about his Watergate role as he fought to stay in office "were not explanations of how a President of the United States could so incompetently allow himself to get in such a situation. That was what people really wanted to know...
Given Steven's past history and its refusal last week to admit that it has ever broken the law in the past, its promise not to break the law in the future has little credibility. In the past fifteen years Stevens has calculated that it is more profitable to systematically undermine unionization efforts and to pay over one million dollars in fines, (clearly a very low price for maintaining inadequate working conditions and low wages and pension payments), than to allow the workers to democratically decide whether they want to be represented by the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers union...
...dawned rather crunchingly on me last week that, after eight soft months on the Harvard Nieman dole, I too am going to be shipped out soon--back into that nervous, fumbling brigade they call "the press corps." Shipped out a bit more flaccid than I'd like to admit. A bit more worried about my role; confused about my credentials as a critic of the American scheme...
...students can't turn Harvard down. They don't want to admit that its prestige attracts them, because they're anti-elitist. This leads them to want to turn Harvard into Swarthmore, although they knew what they were getting into...