Word: fathoming
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...President's Viet Nam policy. They are part of a "misguided movement-an ultraliberalism that translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order." Later he said: "How do you fathom the thinking of those who work themselves into a lather over an alleged shortage of nutriments in Wheaties, but who cannot get exercised at all over a flood of hard-core pornography...
...seek tragedy, but it lies in wait for them when they least expect it. They pursue fame, fortune and glory. They strive to found dynasties, subdue the earth, fathom the depths of the sea and the limits of space. In an instant of high-arching pride as men vault to these ambitious goals, fate fells them, and they return to the dust from which they came. The ancient Greek tragedies are cautionary tales of how men incur the wrath of the gods by trying to be gods...
...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...