Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modernizing Management. This widening product spread forced Mason, a Cornell-trained ('31) engineer, into doing some research of his own on Carbide's tangled management. Deciding that no consultant could possibly comprehend so diverse a company, Mason two years ago began a huge reorganization from within. Finished last fall, it streamlined Carbide into 13 operating divisions in four groups, with Mason and three executive vice presidents as a committee at the top. The new system seems to work so well that Union Carbide now has an excellent chance-even better than that of finding life on Mars...
Perhaps that is the main problem of the academic community in this context. When we try to comprehend the fatigue of men like James Lee Jackson and Malcolm X, the closest feeling we can summon up is boredom. Because we are bored, not tired, we go North and South, demonstrating for every conceivable cause. And it is also why we can leave those causes so quickly. They pall...
James D. Yannatos, lecturer on Music, sympathized with the committee's conservatism. He noted that avant-grade music is difficult to comprehend and evaluate. Yannatos added that although there are many competent composers, "one doesn't give a prize for competence. The creative leap has to be taken...
...letter then asks the question of why Epps' response to the discrimination was so vituperative. In defense of the strength of the attack, White says that "it is impossible for a white person to comprehend the great distress aroused in a Negro who is faced with discrimination. It seems to me it would be a rare person indeed who would be able to hold himself back in a situation such as this. I have an idea I might have done the same thing...
...such is the verse form Author Toynbee has invented "after many experiments" to carry the narrative of his eighth novel, ostensibly the reminiscences of an old Anglo-Norwegian attempting in the year 1999 to recapture and finally comprehend the essence of a brother who died in 1936. Lest the reader fail to appreciate Toynbee's poetic virtuosity, Toynbee provides a pretentious introductory gloss that is almost a recipe. Take "first a very long and discursive line of anything between 25 and 35 syllables (but never either more or less), followed by two lines of five stressed syllables each...