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...matter what conclusions we might reach, if we want to comprehend the shape and substance of German dreams during the early post-war years, we can find no better resource,” he writes...
...Omaha native--would betray Schmidt's essence. The director, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jim Taylor, understands that lives like Schmidt's are composed of incidents that cannot, must not, be forced into confrontation. Payne also understands what it has taken me most of a lifetime to comprehend: that the Schmidts of this world are not to be easily dismissed. Payne did that brilliantly in Election a few years back. Here he's after something deeper. And maybe, if places like Omaha are not bred in your bones, you will grow impatient with the patience he expends on Schmidt...
...school attendance jumped 50%, to 900 students, in just four months. Churches of every denomination and size are trying these new approaches and experiencing similar surges in attendance. "The more [kids] touch and they hear and they feel, the more likely the content becomes not only interesting, but they comprehend and understand," says Charlotte Echols, executive director for the child-development program at Highland Park Methodist United Church in Dallas. "That transforms into the good feeling that brings them back next week...
...with a plain mind confronts a woman with more intricate workings. Hope, 78, is a famous American painter who is questioned by Kathryn, 27, a relentless art specialist who knows everything about postwar American artists except the deep sources of their power to throw thunderbolts. That she will never comprehend. "Interviewers and critics are the enemies of mystery," Hope thinks to herself, "the indeterminacy that gives art life." It's safe to say Updike has entertained that very thought...
...Part of our task will be to assure that all who graduate from this place are equipped to comprehend, to master, to work with, the scientific developments that are transforming the world in which we will all work and live,” Summers told students and faculty last year at his installation speech, adding that scientists also need a thorough grounding in ethics and the humanities...