Word: fathomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tropic of Cancer remains an extremely difficult book to fathom. The personality in back of it has unsounded depths. To even glance at them may get the reader lost in disgust or chaos. But Miller has written an apology as eloquent...
...trick or two in Paris, notably the trick of reserve. Reston quoted a De Gaullism on the subject: "There can be no prestige without mystery. In the designs, the demeanor and the mental operations of a leader, there must always be a 'something' which others cannot altogether fathom." Reston's unstated conclusion: Kennedy is altogether too fathomable...
However, Bergman has chosen to emphasize the philosophical overtones in confrontations between the magician, who performs the inexplicable, and the skeptical doctor Vergerius, whose only desire is to perform an autopsy on Vogler to fathom his mysterious powers. These mystic, irrational powers constitute a threat to the Doctor's peace of mind...
Meanwhile, poor Esther Williams presumably still could not fathom it all, still may be wondering if she could ever "find a man I can lean on who knows his job. I don't think that's possible in the world of mediocrity known as the television industry...
...usual, Moscow's motives were hard to fathom. Noting that the Soviets had previously tried in vain to get Argentina...