Word: comprehendingly
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...mystery. Even before he understands them, he puts them together and takes them apart. He pops pieces of them into his mouth, and spits them out in odd shapes. It is a profound form of play, for it is the only tool a child is given with which to comprehend a world in which he coexists without really belonging -the world of adults...
...real conception of Detroit when I arrived there in June to spend the summer writing for its evening newspaper. Detroit is one of those places you read about but fail to comprehend. On the first day of work, though, I did realize that this city was ugly, class-conscious, industrial, polluted, depressing and depressed. I was quite happy to rent an apartment in Ann Arbor, forty miles away...
What then is so wrong with Street Scenes? Principally, its inability to comprehend. It is openly empathetic with the students, but it gives them no voice except to shout slogans. Its sound track puts down "dinky little secretaries" who will not take a day off to protest the war. It milks easy laughs from those classic villains, the know-nothing cab driver and the harried postman. To be sure, the film eventually recognizes its own faults. "We can't reach the working people," concludes one of the crew. But acknowledging blindness does not grant vision; diagnosis is no cure...
...buoyant optimism that had served a discouraged U.S. so well in the depressed 1930s. Always he had "confidence in his ability to persuade people face to face." In 1941, he would have liked to arrange a Pacific rendezvous with Japan's Premier Fumimaro Konoye, failing to comprehend (as Burns puts it) "that there were few misunderstandings between the two countries, only differences." Later, with the U.S. formally at war in Europe as well as Asia, he failed to perceive that the same observation would have applied just as well to the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
Premack's prime evidence is Sarah, a seven-year-old female chimp with a working "vocabulary" of more than 120 words. Sarah can not only comprehend the meaning of these words but can dip into her glossary to answer questions and build original sentences...