Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Judah Stampfer, an assistant professor of English at New York State University, who should know better, has written a grievously long short-story entitled Jonah. Stampfer clearly understands how to construct English sentences; he does not, however, know when to stop. Nor does he comprehend the least thing about plotting a story...
...Mauer bleibt" -the Wall remains, and will remain. Julius Cardinal Döpfner. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Munich, observed: "One can understand why countless people are afraid of Christmas Eve; because on that very evening all the misery of our divided families will break out. Then many will comprehend how high the Wall...
...form any clear view of the book from many of its various parts taken separately is impossible, but it seems almost equally so when they are taken together. To comprehend just realize that Tropic is hardly a book at all, but a personality. Quite simply, the incidents and the monologues are the author's life (metaphorically if not literally) and are designed only to reveal him. Miller's personality is the sum and essence of his book. It is a terribly vivid personality. And if we give up the vain attempt to shove his book similiar pigeon-hole labelled "nihilist...
...Rusk, General Maxwell Taylor and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Jackson was convinced that no basic reorganization of the nation's policy machinery is really necessary. "More often than not," he emphasized, "poor decisions are traceable not to machinery but to people-to their inexperience, their failure to comprehend the full significance of information crossing their desks, to their indecisiveness or lack of wisdom. Our best hope lies in making our traditional policy machinery work better-not in trading it in for some new model...
...buys these records? Some of the country's best-known big companies (General Electric, Ford, TWA, IBM) go in heavily for salesmanship recordings, which are now published in short, 6½-minute segments. "We did have 30-minute records, but they were too hard to comprehend," explains the manufacturer. People with new false teeth buy copies of Your New Smile, sold through dental supply houses. But in the main, although sales are tumbling along healthily, it is difficult to say just who does buy most of them. It is simpler to say why the records are made. With...