Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strategists privately admitted. But the issue went deeper than German politics. Protesting against the "new wave of distrust," Die Zeit in a front-page editorial noted that there is a "new generation" of Germans which knows Nazi crimes "only from history books and which therefore finds it hard to comprehend that being a German is a flaw of birth. For the sake of this generation, we may be forgiven for saying: One cannot treat a nation like a juvenile delinquent-always under the moral sword, a potential criminal until he proves the contrary...
...larger problem remains: Do the natural sciences have a special importance? Everyone seems to think so. Who has not heard the cliches?: "The average citizen loses most of his taxes to the moon project, yet can't comprehend the fundamentals of space flight." "We support cancer research without knowing the rudiments of biology." "There are 'two cultures...
Thanks to West Germany's 20-year statute of limitations, Nazi war criminals will be safe from prosecution after May. Then responsibility for the nation's conscience will rest largely in the hands of Germany's postwar novelists, whose attempts to comprehend the unsavory past have produced such memorable fiction as Günter Grass's The Tin Drum and Heinrich Böll's Billiards at Half-Past Nine. In The Clown, Böll tells the story of Hans Schnier, a young professional pantomimist who specializes (like his author) in satirizing German complacency...
LOVE AND REVOLUTION, by Max Eastman. An adventure-filled autobiography by the first of the Red-struck young U.S. intellectuals to comprehend the terrors and cruelties of Stalin's Russia. Eastman's only regret at 82 is that he didn't crowd even more into his life...
...broad field of knowledge of which his field is a part. The role of the Gen Ed course (as opposed to the departmental course) is to produce this broadly appreciative man. In short, the generally educated man is distinguished not by what he knows but by his ability to comprehend and assimilate a broad (general if you will) range of material. This skill the Gen Ed course must teach...