Underneath that crack was the serious acknowledgment of a world more uninhibited — of Zuckermans more unbound — than even a professional imaginer like him imagines.
There has not, to my knowledge, been any serious acknowledgment in Britain of the enduring psychological legacy, beyond the bland official nod to the slave trade and empire – unlike the essential retrospection black Americans demanded during the US civil rights movement.
The payout marked the government's first official acknowledgment of serious abuse committed during Britain's messy withdrawal from Kenya.
"This is an acknowledgment of how serious a problem it is".
It is also the first governmental acknowledgment that such serious crimes were committed at that time.
LORI J. WHEAL Orlando, Fla., Feb. 23, 2012 To the Editor: While I applaud Bill Gates for working to improve teacher evaluation systems and appreciate his acknowledgment of the serious commitment required for reform, he doesn't mention the ticking clock.
"In addition, this council, in further acknowledgment of the serious predatory sexual allegations spanning over six decades, agrees that if the council had been aware of such revelations at the time of Sir Jimmy Savile's nomination for honorary freeman of the borough of Scarborough, the council would have refused it.
It calls for acknowledgment of a serious problem, quick action, resources, and accountability.
The EEOC guidelines on affirmative action simply don't mention the old-timers, and there is no sign that the agency has ever considered any kind of preferential hiring for older workers no doubt a tacit acknowledgment of the less serious status of age discrimination.
"But it's also an acknowledgment that there are serious problems.
Woolf's deliciously frolicsome tone, with the narrator merging the mock-serious voice of a sober biographer with a frank acknowledgment of the impossibility of teasing out truth from the mists of history, comes through with its bright, pealing wit.
