Word: concurred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continual fascinations of contemporary music is the tension between originality and tradition arising from apparently conflicting ideals of being at once modern and timeless. While composers plead for the chance to break free from the constraints of the 18th and 19th Centuries, they tacitly concur with the critics (and the audiences), who cling to their touchstones, comparing every modern composition to the classical paragon in its form, usually harshly, often unfairly applying criteria that are not altogether suitable. The composer faces the choices of breaking definitely with the musical past; or creating a new mainstream of music by appealing...
...paradox of the draft as an incentive to enlistment is actually a fairly strong argument for draft extension, if one concurs in the belief that the armed forces must maintain their present size. Most Congressmen do concur and are naturally puzzled when the Army announces that "for economy reasons" it is weeding out 30,000 of its 900,000 men. Perhaps Congress could take the trouble to clear up some of the peculiarities of the deferment and exemption provisions, but these and the anxieties they may create among students are obviously not powerful enough reasons to scrap the draft...
Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Chairman of the Committee on General Education, commented, "I am much in favor of this kind of experimentation...I think this is a step in the right direction." Other members of the committee tended to concur with Murdock's judgment...
Schlesinger would not quite concur in this estimate, and in fact goes to considerable lengths to outline the ideological antecedents of much New Deal legislation. Nevertheless, the argumentation so carefully reported in the volume's chapters on agricultural, industrial, financial, conservation, labor and relief policies seems very much spur-of-the-moment philosophy. Schlesinger does manage to create one plausible clash of ideologies in explaining the New Deal: "The Tennessee Valley Authority ... became another battlefield in the struggle which divided the early New Deal--the struggle between the social planners, who thought in terms of an organic economy...
...large majority of freshmen thought that the men's colleges can be typed. "My opinion would be decidedly different," Miss Broggy asserted. She pointed out that upperclassmen concur in this feeling...