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...trend good or bad? Can the cities cope? No one knows for sure. Without question, urbanization has produced miseries so ghastly that they are difficult to comprehend. In Cairo, children who elsewhere might be in kindergarten can be found digging through clots of ox dung, looking for undigested kernels of corn to eat. Young, homeless thieves in Papua New Guinea's Port Moresby may not know their last names or the names of the villages where they were born. In the inner cities of America, newspapers regularly report on newborn babies dropped into garbage bins by drug-addicted mothers...
...much the same way that Norman and Paul admire the Reverend Maclean. But I never really understood the lure of fishing and though I watched my grandfather attentively, I never learned anything. Without that knowledge of how a fish thinks, I don't think I could ever really comprehend "A River Runs Through It," at least not without the help of Maclean's prose. Redford's illustrations are incredibly beautiful, but if you've never been there, you can't really understand...
...styles, mostly from Asia, which she considers "the true home of acting." Having argued a few years ago that no Westerner could understand Shakespeare because no one (except, of course, Mnouchkine and her disciples) could attain the requisite intellectual distance, she now insists that the only way to comprehend Greek drama, the wellspring of Western culture, is to see it through the prism of her favorite form and principal influence, the kathakali dance drama of southern India...
...only thing he is right about." In fact, this sentiment is at the core of the central programmatic tenet of Loose Canons--that we must create an educational system that fosters "a civic culture that respects both differences and commonalities." This will be a system "that seeks to comprehend the diversity of human culture" since (and this is the Gates mantra) "[t]here is no tolerance without respect--and no respect without knowledge...
...credibility of fear, the Moscow Eight, a second-rate group of thugs, had to use tanks. Yet for the first time in Soviet history, their tanks were directed not against a competing power elite within the Soviet Union, but against the people themselves. That alone is enough to comprehend the effect Gorbachev had on the course of history...