Word: comprehended
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...Unable to comprehend the psychology of one who pursues the arts instead of following more gainful occupations," the Dreyfusses committed the sculptor-son to Bellevue Hospital's Psychopathic Ward last year. Here he was kept for six days in the company of ailing thugs and alcoholic cutups. After Bellevue he summered in the Asylum for the Insane on Ward's Island in the East River. Thence, because zealous friends were seeing him without the family's permission, he was transferred to the exclusive Dr. McDonald's Sanitarium at Central Valley, N. Y., where in durance grand...
Commissioned by the Obregon socialist-labor government to decorate buildings in a way peons could comprehend, he painted many frescoes devoted to a panorama of Mexican life. One of the charges against him is "desecration of public buildings" by use of "figures which, while not lacking in artistic perfection, nevertheless prove a shock to the conservative tastes of certain classes...
Japanese Ambassador M. Katsuji Debuchi, a true diplomat striving always to comprehend and reflect U. S. life. Short, plump, all smiles, he prides himself on his easy colloquial English...
...perusing the magazine during wakeful hours, and it is far from a soporific and I need a mental sedative rather than a mental stimulant. Unless you can insert some poetry between advertisements I shall have to find a substitute for TIME for night reading. The only poetry I can comprehend is limericks. Perhaps you will suggest some particularly stupid magazine guaranteed to produce sleep...
Huge, the pictures represent The Birth of Music. There are bells, babes, crucifixes, saints, sages, violins, all suavely rendered in a flat, decorative style. The colors of these allegorical figures pale beside certain swaths of silver paint and vividly Hungarian ornamentation. It is difficult to see the figures, to comprehend the designs...