Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modernist. Raymond Leslie Buell, onetime head of the Foreign Policy Association, does not oversimplify or resort to rhetoric. A seasoned student of World affairs, he has lately acquired, as editor of FORTUNE'S Round Tables, a firm grasp of domestic, economic and social problems. His book is a methodical 457-page study of the U. S. and the whole modern world. Finally he arrives at a detailed program. If Charles Beard's merit is irony, Buell's is intellectual thoroughness...
...years, is program annotator for the Minneapolis Symphony, author of a widely used textbook, A History of Musi cal Thought. On the podium he conducts with fury, grunting and grimacing while his hair seems to stand on end. Once in a gymnastic passage his baton flew out of his grasp. Once in a difficult passage, Professor Ferguson grew so pleased that he entirely forgot to lead. Neither time did the chorus get out of the groove...
...other consideration comes to mind. . . . In recent days we have only too frequently witnessed in the activities of high academic rank apparent proof that they have no firm grasp of the ideal of freedom of mind that Dr. Conant speaks so much about. We have heard and seen innumerable honored graduates of our great institutions of higher learning speak with a most intolerable attitude of the social and economic views of others...
...press conferences were circuses in which they fed their victim mock questions and played up his answers as gags. Governor 0'Daniel was distressed but helpless. Please Pass the Biscuits, Pappy had been his campaign theme song; the correspondents made him out a puling Pappy who could not grasp even the elementals of applied political pap. But the Governor, despite all his campaign japery, took his office seriously, trusted in simple faith to make up for his numerous incapacities, believed still that he as a good man could prevail over a host of bad men. Prominent among...
During all this time the other two boys had been left to shift for themselves. When they were old enough to grasp what was happening their training began. In a short time their performances not only equaled, but in one case even surpassed, those of their more tutored brothers...