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Word: admittedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...centered on the values of objectivity and efficiency as the primary illusions of modern university education. Everybody should admit by now that objectivity is a lost cause. You can't make a statement about the world without assuming, either implicitly or explicitly, the rightness or the goodness of certain values- and statements containing value-assumptions are by definition subjective, not objective. Intellectual knowledge does not exist in a moral vacuum- or in an ivory tower. Neither its discovery nor its application is carried out objectively...

Author: By Sandy Bonder, | Title: Harvard New College Has Begun-Again | 10/7/1969 | See Source »

...forceful anger of one who "should have won." Whenever he sees Walter at the point of losing his self-assurance. Strudwick looks at or rubs his hands- the surgeon's hands, the hands that have given him his material happiness. In this way, he shows that Walter refuses to admit that his hands have failed him. He expects his rewards in life to mirror his well-defined rewards as a surgeon...

Author: By Phil Lebowitz, | Title: The Price at the Wilbur through Saturday | 10/7/1969 | See Source »

...United Papermakers angrily threatened to strike Crown Zellerbach's plant at Bogalusa, La., after the company agreed to end discrimination. After a lengthy legal battle, five New Jersey locals of the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers agreed for the first time in 1966 to admit Negroes into apprenticeship training. Today, only a handful of blacks have broken into the locals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: WHAT UNIONS ARE-AND ARE NOT-DOING FOR BLACKS | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...McCurdy is lucky that I've come up with another outstanding crop of freshmen," Hunt said." He won't admit it. but he's been toying with entering them as the varsity today...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Substandard Cross-Country Team Faces Huskies In Season Opener | 9/24/1969 | See Source »

...while no one at the Wilbur will admit it yet, Variety reports that an unlimited run of a duplicate of the Broadway Hair will open there in February...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The New Boston Theatre Season: The Good, the Bad, and the Loeb | 9/22/1969 | See Source »

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