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...also tried to smear the reputation of former Attorney General Elliot Richardson and are now discrediting White House Counsel Fred Buzhardt. If Buzhardt devised the ludicrous Watergate legal strategy, he deserves criticism. But publicly humiliating a loyalist like Buzhardt is another of those small human rituals that most people comprehend...
...Indian women begging a scrap of meat from a frightened, guilty white woman. A narrator describes the oppression of the local Sioux tribes by the U.S. government as desperate Indians take to the warpath seeking food and redress, sweeping the settlers up in yet another external force they cannot comprehend but only react to. Troell does not look for easy morals--his Indians are brutal, gaunt and dirty beside the blond and prosperous farmers. The worst of their savageries, the disembowelment of a pregnant settler, was cut from the film by an offended American distributor...
...Hall clearly does not comprehend just how many Harvard and Radcliffe students customarily remain in their suites for large portions of the holiday. Some students have no choice but to do so, others prefer to remain for compelling educational reasons. Nor does Mr. Hall appreciate the enormous potential for loss of property, administrative confusion, and sheer hopeless bustle that his proposal to move all remaining students into one house would create...
...classification, "a hierarchy among diverse intelligences." They wrote: "intelligence, better mentality, encompasses many different faculties, including sensation, emotions, and others." They considered the most important faculty within intelligence to be judgment, "otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting oneself to circumstances. To judge well, to comprehend well, to reason well, these are the essential activities of intelligence...
...Vietnamese also have limited amounts of patience, especially in dealing with each other. Not all of the villains in Vietnamese history have been foreigners. In the past, Americans had no exposure to Vietnamese literature, and it was difficult to comprehend how the Vietnamese viewed the internal fabric of their society and what themes they found controversial. The best known story in Vietnam, The Tale of Kieu, by the 19th century writer Nguyen Du, recounts the plight of a girl forced to leave her home to become a prostitute in order to secure the money needed to pay for the release...