Word: fathoming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that, but I surely wish they'd cut out the self-delusion that moves them (and male clubbies) to try and get me to believe that their clubs are not, or will not be, elitist or socially exclusive. To quote from your article, it is hard to fathom the import of Dr. Chase Peterson's words. "Too few people are involved in final clubs to feel excluded if they were unable to join." This is a curious brand of Twist-O-Flex logic to say that a member of a majority group seeking access to a minority clique will...
Like most operas, The Magic Flute has its cultists, opera purists have harrumphed at Bergman's "popularization" of the original libretto. But he's done the rest of us a service--to the uninitiated The Magic Flute's message can be hard to fathom, seeming alternately simpleminded and ponderously abstract. The opera is an allegorical celebration of the ideals of the Masonic brotherhood, a secret, illegal society to which Mozart belonged, and the elaborate rituals that take up over half the opera are closely modeled on the initiation rites of the Order. Eighteenth century audiences would have instantly recognized...
...difficult thing for most Harvard administrators to fathom is that while Harvard can't fill its beds, other colleges have had to turn away students in droves...
Just where an undergraduate fits into this is difficult to fathom. Of the 16,000 or so students here, about 6200--slightly under 40 per cent--are going through their first four years of higher education. Of the 4300-some instructors, 763 are voting members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which most often comes in contact with undergraduates and which spends about one-fourth of the university's $200-million budget...
...daughter-in-law (Carol Speed) starts acting up. Her sexual passion is unquenchable. Her vocabulary becomes raunchy, and her voice turns coarse to match. She knocks her husband around, makes the windows shake and the furniture jump and is even responsible for a death or two. Medical science cannot fathom her symptoms. Is she crazy? Or is her trouble-as someone ominously and predictably puts it-"something else"? Only her cleric knows for sure...