Word: comprehendingly
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...rope stretched between the animal and the Superman" - Shaw found his equivalent for God in what he called the Life Force. He had a messianic faith that natural selection by the Life Force could enable man to produce an improved species of Homo sapiens, which presumably could comprehend the ultimate meaning and purpose of existence. That is his rationalizing sanction of the mat ing of Jack Tanner and Ann Whitefield. They might produce a brainy superbaby...
Cria! is about a little girl named Ana (played by the haunting Ana Torrent) who has an innocent penchant for wandering into situations that she cannot fully comprehend. Having witnessed her mother's anguish before her death from cancer, Ana becomes convinced that her philandering father is somehow responsible. She decides to poison him and succeeds-or so she firmly believes. Thereafter, when an aunt who has been appointed guardian to her and her sisters seems to be straying out of line, Ana again resorts to the poison bottle. But Auntie lives. The "poison" turns...
They can also be extremely difficult, full of contradictions and imperatives that are hard for Americans to comprehend. Westerners tend to regard negotiations as a vehicle leading to compromise. The Soviets more often view them as a struggle to be won. The difference is all the more important right now because the U.S. and the Soviet Union face a series of negotiations, beginning with SALT II in Geneva last week, that will determine relations between the two countries for many years to come...
Rather than imposing massive reform, the act tinkers and fine-tunes. It narrows some long-abused loopholes, widens others; it tidies up some of the messiest corners of the tax code and introduces new complexities into others. To cope with it, taxpayers must attempt to comprehend subtle variations in meaning and vague, ambiguous words and phrases. Among other things, the law will be forcing many more taxpayers than ever to learn the distinction between a deduction and a tax credit (a deduction is subtracted from the income subject to tax: a credit is subtracted directly from the amount...
Jaynes, 55, a research psychologist at Princeton, now knows that what he was trying to comprehend was consciousness-and how it arose from mere matter. Indeed, he thinks he finally has the answer: consciousness arose from language in two evolutionary steps and appeared for the first time in human history in the second millennium B.C. Jaynes proposes this startling concept in his new book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. If his theory is correct, mankind existed without consciousness for thousands of centuries, functioning dimly in "antlike" colonies nearly up to the age of Confucius...