Word: comprehendible
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Perhaps the most odious facet of this strategy involves the liberal's relationship with the Negro: the liberal must again urge patience. Demonstrations in the South should focus on specific grievances that the Northern moderate can comprehend easily. If violence occurs, blame must lie clearly with the white Southerner. In the North, violence could prove fatal to the President's chances; the white is incapable of understanding why irrational treatment of the Negro should elicit an irrational response. In general, direct action in the North should be discouraged this summer...
Rather, by letting the student give vent to his own vague but gnawing concerns, the counselor helps him organize his feelings in a coherent pattern that both he and the counselor can comprehend. Then, counselor and student together can focus on the newly perceived problems to search for insights and solutions. Ideally, this collabortive effort develops in the student a capacity for productive self understanding and relieves him of a prolonged dependence upon the Bureau...
Actually, the question is irrelevant in responding to the ending. There is no black and white, no moral message involved; even mental disturbance seems impenetrable. Simply, complications lead with a terrifying inevitability to heartbreak and death. We long to blame someone, but because we do not comprehend Pierre's psychology there can be no blame. The power of the film lies in what happens, on a purely emotional level, to the two women who love...
...Russian language, as rich and varied as English, is equally hard to comprehend and spell. With the 1917 revolution came a determined effort to clean up the lingual mess, and the regime simplified spelling rules and eliminated outdated letters. Just by liquidating the hard sign at the end of words, printers saved 70 pages on each copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace...
...dimension of this accomplishment is extraordinary because the French do not generally comprehend American musicals. The last one to open in translation there was Annie Get Your Gun (Annie du Far-Ouest) in 1950, and it flopped. Paris audiences expect the pressed sugars of operetta when they go to light musical theater, and they are never quite up to story lines and sociology in song. When the movie version of The King and I arrived in Paris, the theater was all but empty until the exhibitor cut all the music out of the picture; then audiences in sizable quantity began...