Word: comprehendingly
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...more fanciful." The three parts of the work (alternately slow, fast and slow) flowed well, and there was some obvious excellent writing, such as the one part where the violin seamlessly and idiomatically alternated between bowed and plucked notes). However, it may take several more hearings before I can comprehend the full scope of the work, as I was sometimes lost with the dramatic direction of the work. Still, Martino, a former Professor of Music at Harvard and winner of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize in music, was in attendance and warmly acknowledged the performer...
...implement a living wage and a conscionable sweatshop policy for several years. This is the first time, however, we have sought direct access to the Harvard Corporation. The Corporation is the University's highest governing board. Unfortunately, it is also the most secretive; PSLM is only now beginning to comprehend the Corporation's design and its influence...
...this week as you settle back to watch the Yankees and Mets slug it out for the title "Best Baseball Team in New York," think of the national teams Americans could be playing if they could only comprehend cricket. You could be competing against England, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, South Africa, The West Indies... Now THAT would be a World Series...
...early '90s, with time off (for him) to run for President, Buchanan and I were co-hosts of the CNN program Crossfire. A mentally handicapped friend of mine was a big fan of the show. (Don't snort. O.K., go ahead and snort.) My friend can't begin to comprehend a talk-show discussion, but his lack of comprehension allows him to see the underlying social dynamic more clearly than those of us whose vision is fogged by understanding. He said to me once, "Mike, is that guy Pat your boss?" And what is leadership if not bossiness? Buchanan...
...decade would normally have been about 70 in this part of Africa; as a result of AIDS it will plummet to 30. Said the Census Bureau's Karen Stanecki at last week's 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa: "It is hard to comprehend the mortality we will see in these countries...