Word: comprehendingly
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LOVE AND REVOLUTION, by Max Eastman. An adventure-filled autobiography by the first of the Red-struck young U.S. intellectuals to comprehend the terrors and cruelties of Stalin's Russia. Eastman's only regret at 82 is that he didn't crowd even more into his life...
...understanding and appreciation of a broad field of knowledge that it should be required. Gen Ed must look to the years after college when a man is a specialist, professional, or technocrat. It must train him for another role--nothing less than a citizen whose quality of mind can comprehend a pluralistic society...
...broad field of knowledge of which his field is a part. The role of the Gen Ed course (as opposed to the departmental course) is to produce this broadly appreciative man. In short, the generally educated man is distinguished not by what he knows but by his ability to comprehend and assimilate a broad (general if you will) range of material. This skill the Gen Ed course must teach...
...galaxies, reach on reach of dark space, steppes of stars, oceanic darkness and light. There is no god in it, no particular concern or particular mercy. Yet everywhere I see a living balance, a rippling tension, an enormous yet mysterious simplicity, an endless breathing of light. And I comprehend that being is understanding, that I must exist in hazard but that the whole is not in hazard. Seeing and knowing this is being conscious; accepting it is being human...
Galbraith said the Senator drew his support from the "genuine extremists and the lunatic fringe" and from the "Outsiders." He explained that the "Outsiders" were people who could not comprehend the complexities of modern domestic and foreign policy, and that Goldwater satisfied their "Yearning" for a spokesman...