Word: comprehendible
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Describing relations between the U.S. and Europe recently, Japan's Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira somewhat enviously mused: "Blood is thicker than water." As for U.S. relations with Japan, Ohira added ruefully: "It takes twice the effort to even comprehend each other...
...Americans of Cambridge I think that we're a people with a capacity for vast growth in our ability to comprehend that things can be better than they have been," he said...
...vantage point of the white community, everyone thinks the great white father is going to take care of the black man and we know he isn't," Monro says. "One reason white America does not see the need for the black college is that we really do not comprehend the existence of the black community in this country and the depths of the problems our black community must solve...
...automatically communicate their message." Another opera star, Enrico Caruso, found so little to understand in The Star-Spangled Banner that he devised a phonetic version: "O seiken iu see bai dhi dons erli lait/Huat so praudli ui heild at dhi tuailaits last glimmin..." As for those who do comprehend the message, what is there to like? Images of "the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air" no longer evoke 19th century triumphs but this century's despair...
...begin, we must locate Indochina--not an a map, but in our minds. We can do this only by engaging our atrophied imaginations, allowing ourselves finally, now that the war is simmering, to comprehend with our senses what the years of American terror have been like for the people of Indochina...