Word: comprehendible
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...past time for warnings. There is presently violence in the South--white people are killing Negroes, Negroes are killing whites--Americans are slaughtering Americans. White people must begin to comprehend the Negro's demand for full equality...
...question of what conception a Harvard student can have of life outside the Yard. In an institution where seventy-five per cent of the students continue their studies in graduate school and where the only impressive adults accessible to students are scholars, it is difficult for an undergraduate to comprehend very well what "real life...
Claggart (played by Robert Ryan) himself cannot comprehend the spectacle before him; he forces himself to see evil in Billy. In a pathetic scene, he exhorts Squeak to portray Budd as a mutineer. Ryan plays the perfect villain; watching a whipping delights him to the point of ecstasy...
...pork barrel. When other Senators wanted approval of pet home-state spending projects, they had to come to Kerr-and he always remembered his debtors. He was as ruthless in public debate as in private trading. He once made a Senate speech claiming that Republican Dwight Eisenhower could not comprehend the nation's fiscal policies, "because one cannot do that without brains, and he does not have them." There upon Indiana's loyal but hapless Republican Senator Homer Capehart rose to protest. The next day Kerr answered Capehart with a deft revision of the Congressional Record...
What makes the book memorable, however, is one whopping interior monologue. For more than 50 pages, interspersed Faulkner-style through the novel, Faehmel's mother records in a tone of well-bred perplexity a woman's 50-year struggle with an enemy she does not quite comprehend but which, she knows well enough, has destroyed her brothers, her two sons, her society. Time jumbles, blurs. In midsentence, she switches from memories of sending her brother off to the 1914 war to the thought that her other son must have been bewitched when he went off to join...