Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even the Chancellor's closest supporters admit he has a vanity and impatience that can blister into arrogance. In his clockwork Cabinet meetings, he thinks nothing of cutting off the first digression with a knifing "That's not pertinent!" He once complained about Ludwig Erhard, who succeeded Adenauer as Chancellor, that "talking with him is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall...
...deterioration in his friend Nathan and becomes increasingly the confidant of Sophie. Her tale evolves slowly, hesitantly; she is riven with the guilt of a survivor. There are secrets from her days in Poland and her 20 months in Auschwitz that she cannot bear to think about, much less admit to Stingo...
...GSAS officials slowly mull over the changes suggested in Rosovsky's report, the outside world is rapidly pushing change on the school. The number of applications dropped this year a substantial 11.5 per cent, and the shortage forced many departments to admit more than the GSAS standard of 25 per cent of the applicant pool. More graduate students than ever before dropped out at mid-year this year to attend professional schools. While Richard A. Kraus, associate dean of the GSAS, and director of admissions and financial aid, maintains that Harvard's graduate school accepts less of its applicant pool...
Lipsky is encouraged by the increase in the number of black applicants, but she is not ready to admit discouragement over dramatic decreases in other minority applications. By reclassifying hispanics to exclude those who are South American or have Spanish surnames but are not Puerto Rican or Chicano, Harvard registered a 40 per cent drop in hispanic applicants. But Lipsky says recruitment efforts this year may actually have increased the number of "true" hispanics, an increase the statistics mask. Similarly Native American applicants dropped because to qualify as Native American this year an applicant must satisfy National Bureau of Indian...
...crowd. Like the time he got on a elevator in Iran next to a man in yellow button-down shirt and gray suit who was talking about Cambridge. Lopez says he knew immediately the man was from Harvard. "I think that any Harvard man that doesn't admit he's kind of proud to be a Harvard is kidding himself, he says. Lopez, who proudly proclaims himself the first Mexican-American graduate of the Law School, has got a bad case of the Harvard disease. People who are less taken in by the mystique," he says, "are those...