Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they cannot forget what Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno called "the God-ache." Implicit or explicit in all Kafka's work, the source of his religious rage, his drama, irony, despair and compassion, is this incompatibility, this eternal misunderstanding of God by man-the inability of man to grasp, by limited human standards, the standards of divine Justice or divine Grace...
...compound of dreamer and practical masterbuilder which hoists Gropius to his commanding position. Colleagues may gain his grasp of industrial civilization's new demands upon the architect, but they are not likely to catch up to the stride of his dynamic evolving personal philosophy. To the older elements in the profession everything he stands for is still poison: these are men who are aware that the New Architecture steadily gains ground but who are doggedly wed to pat formulas and the Roman column...
Astronomy 1 is the department's bread-and-butter course. Devised to present a broad, scientific survey, it is not highly mathematical and no severe prerequisites are stipulated. It is an excellent practical distribution course; out of it, the non-Astronomy-major should get a reasonable good grasp of the natures of physical laws, atomic physics, and the universe, and in general an appreciation of the way the scientist solves the problems of nature...
...graduate school, however, an advanced structure is erected on his S.B. foundation. A one-year program leading to the M.S. degree and a two year M. Engin, Sct. curriculum consist of coherent plans of specialization with definite aims. A grasp of the business side of engineering may be acquired by a year of graduate work in business school...
...attempt to simplify Toynbee's theory can communicate the scope of his historic purpose, the flexibility (amounting to wariness) of his cautious, scholarly mind, the grasp of his erudition, the profusion of historical comparison, contrast, allusion and quiet humor with which he weaves and vivifies his argument. Nevertheless, even grossly simplified, his main design, as on the reverse of a great tapestry, comes through...