Word: comprehends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even his more modern lyrics are unashamed of their formality, their yearning to comprehend the universe as well as the individual and his own meagre world. In the reticent themes of Advice to a Prophet (1961) Wilbur's voice becomes laconic and impersonal. "A Summer Morning," about the pathos of a gardener and a cook experiencing the estate of their decadent employers, "possessing what the owners can but own," could have been a pathetic monologue by Randall Jarrell; most of his poems, aside from the many French translations, have no predecessor...
MOREOVER, along with this changed attitude toward authority, students have recognized the effectiveness of the violent protest as a means of political action. They understand the risks but they comprehend that they can actually force the system to change by physically confronting it. In the end students have finally been convinced by the results rather than by the methods...
Albert Camus died eight years ago, at 46, in an auto crash-a pointless death that served to emphasize the pointless absurdities of life, which he so painfully tried to comprehend...
...rough-housing may seem a flight from even the possibility of self-recognition. His own view of the constant alteration of point-of-view is that it is the most direct form of personal education. "What else can you mean by consciousness expanding," he asks, "than the attempt to comprehend all the life styles in an age?" This is his short-hand way of expressing the old desire for transcendence. A man who is nothing, after all, is potentially everything. "Studying the Puritans or watching you try to figure me out, Sabel," he once said, "are just ways of playing...
...three to be perverted by the Duke and his court, from the outset and in a heavy-handed way he anticipates their final downfall. Everything is hung with doom so that we can neither laugh at their innocence, which is moribund, nor being newcomers to the play ourselves, comprehend their suffering...