Word: fathoming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that this could be a cafeteria would have never occurred to me even if I had sat there a million years. And I compare this to people who ask questions about the Almighty, 'Why does He behave so? 'Why does He behave so? It was for me difficult to fathom that I was in a cafeteria, and who knows where...
...going to presume to attribute didactic intentions to Wurlitzer, to try to fathom whether he intended his book as a polemic, and if he did, what he sympathizes with. But the vision that he does present is extremely depersonalized. The mind you take on in the book's realm is floating in a null-space where any more than three memories are superfluous, and even that many is suspect. Memories are toys to be played with. It is like seeing Fantasia as a child and not being sure for years whether you actually saw those images or only dreamed that...
...ordinary "John Doe" Catholic, educated by the structure, has had very little understanding of the problems within his ecclesiastical home. His approach to the priest has been obsequious, only because that is the way we trained him. He has looked at the priest as a celestial magician, and cannot fathom the exodus as anything but the work of the devil...
Concentrated Power. Since 1963, Patman has run his banking committee like a fief. He often gets away with oversimplifications and half-truths because so few Americans, in or out of Congress, fathom the intricacies of finance. Many bankers contend that Patman thoroughly misunderstands how the U.S. banking system operates. They argue that some of his proposed reforms would yoke the Federal Reserve to policies of permanent inflation by depriving the board of its ability to take unpopular actions. Still, Economists John Kenneth Galbraith, Seymour Harris and several others support Patman's idea of placing the Reserve Board under presidential...
...Germans were at least astute enough to fathom one thing about the center of Catholicism: it abounds in rumor and thrives on hearsay. "In place of this river of unreliable information, we need authentic news which is really important," read a 1943 report to the foreign ministry in Berlin from Ernst von Weizsacker, who as Ambassador to the Holy See also directed a German spy network. One person assigned to ferret out the authentic news for the Germans was an apostate priest named Georg Elling. who came to Rome ostensibly to study the life of St. Francis of Assisi. What...