Word: discern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...naive viewpoint for so long, suddenly turns on the girl in the final sequences and destroys her by his own willful misapprehension of her world picture, should we blame Strindberg for inconsistency, or pay better attention to his frightfully economical dramaturgy? By attempting the latter, it is possible to discern the terrible logic of the play. This logic, of course, works on us as confusion if we refuse to see everything the play offers us; on the other hand, if we pay close attention to the source of our confusion, the logic works on us as a very potent lesson...
...News felt so good about everything was not easy to discern. After a show of stubbornness, it yielded to the striking New York Newspaper Guild on nearly every contested point, including dues checkoff (automatic payroll deduction of Guild dues). Even the wage settlement in the new two-year contract-ranging from $3.50 a week more for copy boys to $10.50 for reporters-was far nearer the Guild's original demand than management's first offer. The News also suffered another embarrassment. The New York Times, not directly involved in the strike, was actively involved in ending...
Hyperbole rose in the summer air like incense. As always, buyers fainted, sobbed and elbowed one another, threw themselves into designers' arms in ecstasy. It took a calm and practiced eye (of which there seemed to be few last week in Paris) to discern that, though there might be news in the flare of a skirt or the flash of a new material, there was no basic change in hemline or shape that would force any girl in Duluth or Santa Fe to throw away her whole wardrobe. Still, no Paris showing, where countesses materialize to plunk down...
...inspired guess by Dmitri Mendeleev that helped organize the elements into the periodic table. Historical guesswork is harder to prove definitely right or wrong. Spengler, who died in 1936, remains one of the few men of modern times who have attempted to assimilate all knowledge and discern a broad design. Even wrong, Spengler is more stimulating than many another historian who has never guessed...
Whatever the current and future reaction of the national press, the role of the News Office in this affair will remain a black mark against the University whose name some people, for reasons increasingly hard to discern, have associated with truth and the freedom of ideas. The News Office release was uninformative; but far more than that, it was in many places deliberately distorted. Unless education writers turn to a copy of the report itself (and, considering the state of "education departments" on most papers, they are not likely to), they will never sense the urgency and feeling with which...