Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Woburn meeting with her husband John. "It sets out to make people face their deepest feelings about the contract that they made on their wedding day - and it succeeds. When they discover that they can trust each other even with their fears, the couples seem suddenly to comprehend the meaning of love." Indeed, the process is so popular that on a typical weekend, 115 Encounters are in operation in the U.S. The majority, including the Woburn meeting, are under the aegis of "Worldwide" Marriage Encounter, headquartered in St. Louis, which has a national program budget of around $1 million. Including...
...continued to spread beyond the Defense Department to other government agencies and nonprofit institutions. As a result, even the critics must acknowledge that key policymakers should be acquainted with these methods if only to appreciate their pitfalls and avoid becoming captive to elaborate staff studies which they cannot adequately comprehend...
...Mishima - which is natural enough since Mishima was, for all his exuberance and charm, a squirmingly unpleasant character; his brilliance had the phosphorescence of decay. All his life, he was explicitly and erotically in love with death. Suicide was the only act, he believed, that could make him comprehend his own existence. Just after Mishima disemboweled himself, his mother said: "This was the first time in his life that Kimitake [Mishima] did something he always wanted to do. Be happy...
...cannot comprehend the moral basis upon which you select Man of the Year. Here is a person who blatantly manipulated economies and crises throughout the world. In a society where morals are consistently sold out to the highest bidder, you rank with the best of the offenders...
...lives and gives them coherent visual expression. This "Flame of Recognition," to use Nancy Newhall's description of Edward Weston, is what lies behind any great photographer. The absence of Friedlander, Winogrand and their co-workers from the Whitney's show is emblematic of Doty's failure to comprehend this, but his miscomprehension of what makes for good photography also shows up in his failure to hang the best photographs by several of the "classic" photographers. Doty's treatment of Edward Steichen and Alfred Steiglitz, both closely associated with the "pictorialist" school, is good, but the pictures by Weston...