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Holocaust never supplies enough surrounding political and economic context for its drama. The adolescent born in 1965, trying to comprehend what happened so long ago, cannot in the 9½ hours find Germany's post-World War I humiliation, its horrific inflation under Weimar, the strange, grasping hopes that so many Germans invested in Hitler. He or she will not understand why the German people allowed it all to happen, a mystery connected to the question of why the Jews did not comprehend everything earlier...
...problem with such a style is that American audiences comprehend only the diluted version of a pure art form. There are Indian musicians in the U.S., such as sitarist Ravi Shankar and sarodist Ali Akbar Khan, who play unadulterated classical Hindustani music. But they seem more concerned with commercial success than with upholding the ancient secular and philosophical traditions that are an integral part of Indian classical music...
...appalled and saddened to read (March 15) of the five minority organizations seeking "special representation" under the proposed constitution. The members of these organizations apparently fail to comprehend that direct constitutionally-mandated interest-group representation is a very tricky, and ultimately inappropriate, vehicle for the realization of their goals...
Literary interpretation employs secrecy and trickery in its attempt to comprehend an unfollowable world, Frank Kermode told a crowd of approximately 200 in his final Charles Eliot Norton Lecture...
Impelled, driven away from his desk and the study of a history he could no longer comprehend or even cared to, by a small spot that expanded, grew, shouldered against the facts he had stored in his brain; the constant pushing made sleep impossible, even when sleep was assisted by--or perhaps itself driven away--by several slugs from a bottle of cheap bourbon. A ring of light glowed in the east past the Charles, like the necklace of a dark lady, and that told him it was dawn or otherwise he might not have known because time, like history...