Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secondly, we need generalists who are competent to inter-relate the functions and the interests of one component of our society with another, who understand how to calculate the common, overlapping interest. Someone must comprehend and be capable of acting on knowledge about where the various pieces of the picture fit together, how they best integrate into the whole coordinated effort. The man who develops an inter-disciplinary, inter-community experience can better perform this function. Ideas must cross-fertilize across arbitrary groupings, and ultimately to communicate those ideas effectively you need to movement, not just words and pieces...
...actively drunk Belmondo compare the far-flung fantasies each has known while drunk. In doing so, they display both a humor and quiet intensity that rises from more than what they actually do or say. They ("the nobility of drunkards") share an understanding the audience is also allowed to comprehend...
...town they politely demurred at the suggestion that they rent a spacious balcony apartment in town and instead set up house in a beach front dwelling of bricksand bamboo, located two miles away. The choice amazed local fishermen. "But only poor people live here," said one, unable to comprehend why gringos chose to reside in his barrio...
Zeligs draws incomplete and consequently inaccurate portraits of both men. Chambers emerges as cold, sick, and vengeful. Hiss is dry, methodical, charming and generous. While we can understand what made Hiss an appealing person we can at no time comprehend what part of Chambers' character made him even remotely tolerable, to Hiss or anyone else...
Sadly, many of the treaty's most vociferous critics do not seem to comprehend what innovations the agreement actually entails. It is not, as many opponents believe, the only way to establish new consulates. The President can legally authorize consulates himself, and has done so in the past without Senate approval...