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...more at the Alibi in Middlebury. When all the racers returned to the gym they found LaCasse and his two compatriots sitting in the middle of all the sleeping bags and boots and pillows and way, babbling something fervently to themselves. "It was strange, but nobody could quite comprehend it," said Harvard coach Carter...
...First I must get used to things and try to comprehend my situation...
...took man centuries to comprehend that there was a miraculous mechanism in side his head and begin to in vestigate its workings. Aristotle taught his pupils that the brain was merely a radiator or cooling system for the blood; he identified the heart as the organ of thought. Pliny the Elder was one of the first to identify the brain as "the citadel of sense perception." But nei ther he nor generations of scientists who followed him had the knowledge or techniques to explore it. Investigation was also stymied by philosophical obstacles. The brain was considered the seat...
...liberal stances. As for sincerity, Hughes used the term somewhat sarcastically: "In his study on Bismarck, Kissinger is full of intuitive insight: 'Sincerity has meaning only in reference to a standard of truth of conduct. The root fact of Bismarck's personality, however, was his incapacity to comprehend any such standard outside his will. It was not that Bismarck lied ... this is much too self-conscious an act-but that he was finely attuned to the subtlest currents of any environment and produced measures precisely adjusted to the need to prevail. The key to Bismarck's success...
...course, two supplements hardly cover the full story of the continuing struggle of most of the world for political freedom and economic security. What they do attempt to do is outline the dimensions of a problem difficult to comprehend even in theory and too easy to forget in a country which has become the main intruder into the lives of other nations...