Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brealte, repudiates her husband, eventually suffers the ignominious fate of ostracism. In Leopards and Lilies, talented Author Duggan (The Little Emperors) is caught with his drawbridge down: the story is not as fleet as Angevin England's fast-moving Leopard banners. But, as usual, Duggan has a thorough grasp of the political and social hanky-panky of his period. The publisher offers unsatisfied buyers of the book any substitute title they may pick off the current bestseller list, but current bestsellers being what they are, readers might as well stick with Duggan...
...news story of Nov. 1 entitled "Sophomore suffers injury in 'Accident' at Claverly" reeks of editorialization. Your journalism is in severe question when you grasp for such devices as setting "accident in quotation marks and dwelling on such an irrelevancy as the "instrument" blunder...
Today, done with decanal duties, he sits back in his Littauer Office and modestly recalls his friendship with President Lowell and his deep interest in fostering tutorial. "Self education lies at the basis of the tutorial system," he explains, "with the tutor around to help get a better grasp of the subject." In his office hang autographed pictures from Presidents Conant and Lowell. Under Lowell's there is the inscription, "In gratitude to Dean Alfred C. Hanford for raising the respect for scholarship at Harvard College." He still leans back in his chair, a twinkle in his eyes, unlit pipe...
...kind of communion? This is a question with which the elusiveness of history is bound to confront us; but it is a question that points beyond time and therefore beyond history too. We have seen that "objective" history is always elusive. The historian's most sincere attempts to grasp it are always partly baffled by the inescapable subjectiveness of his own point of view. Might not an omnipotent dictator, armed with new weapons of psychological technique, be able to cut his subjects off completely from all contact with the objective past? Might not he be able to impose...
...European missionaries and businessmen who have crossed the bridge with their wives and children since then have been forced to walk, or more frequently, to limp along the footpath bearing on their weary backs or in their hands those few possessions they were able to wrench from the Communist grasp...