Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This concurs with the Arabs' own needs. Affected by centuries of tribal infighting and repressive philosophic traditions, they are unable to sustain the revolt they launched because they do not comprehend the extent of their power and virtue. Lawrence serves as their catalyst; recognizing British colonial interests, he dares Prince Feisal to take a battle initiative on his own, without the Allied artillery and 'discipline' which could blunt the Arab guerrillas' effectiveness. With the mercenary Howeitat tribe, Lawrence crosses the Nehfu Desert to take the Gulf of Aqaba. (This is, of course, a convenient fiction; Aqaba was taken only after...
...impossible for us to comprehend how it is possible to wage a genuine liberation struggle that will move and mobilize the Greek people if its unfettered sovereignty will not be secured in the hour of victory," he continued. "And certainly the return of Constantine-the par excellence guardian of the American Pentagon and of the powers of occupation of our country-without the consent of the Greek people, is in compatible with the liberation struggle...
This may not be everyone's idea of how to spend a little under an hour in the theater, but for anyone who wants to seek out and comprehend the deepest wellsprings of drama, it is an hour well spent. Within the past two weeks, Joseph Papp's Public Theater, where The Grey Lady Cantata is housed, has offered playgoers: Subject to Fits (a free-form fantasy based on Dostoevsky's The Idiot), Slag (claustrophobic feminine hysteria in a decaying British girls' school) and Here Are Ladies (see below). The handsome landmark building on Lafayette Street...
...been without their small pleasantries. In any case, they are at least harmless. Rhinestones in the Rough, on the other hand, demands no tolerance, for it is nasty and insulting. The sniggering in Page Grubb's book is aimed at women, radicals, and (for reasons I fail to comprehend) Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Henry Ford was angry: his engineers had presumed to design a replacement for the already obsolescent Model T. They could not comprehend that the Model T was sacrosanct. Neither could they understand why Ford had pursued the idea of a car for the masses so singlemindedly, nor why it meant so much to him that he allowed no important change in it until 1927, after it had been overtaken by competitors. They never knew, either, why success turned him mean and vindictive. Now Anne Jardim, a social psychologist, has attributed this strange behavior to Ford's unwarranted conviction that...