Word: grasp
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Besides the change in admissions policy, the Faculty voted a moratorium on classes as a first step in reforming its urban-related curricula. Curriculum reform is important: the Ed School has a responsibility to make sure it provides teachers with a good grasp of ghetto realities. But the Ed School could produce more as well as better teachers for ghetto classrooms by recruiting white students interested in urban teaching...
There are those who would say the life of a Haitian peasant in the countryside has little value, that a life of poverty is cheap, that the natives put on a colorful show in the nightclub, but that with no shoes and no automobiles they cannot grasp the touchstones of happiness...
...sensibly to the situation than any single segment of the community," says Moynihan. "Business has no commitments to fulfill, no hang-ups, no previous directions or declarations to defend." Some experts are concerned that the nation may expect the Corporate Establishment to provide panaceas for problems beyond its grasp. "Businessmen cannot do it all by themselves," warns Time Inc. Chairman Andrew Heiskell, co-chairman of the Urban Coalition, a combine of leaders in business, labor, civil rights, churches and city governments set up to attack the urban mess on a city-by-city basis. "We've got to advance...
...team championship appears to be beyond Harvard's grasp, but a few Crimson grapplers could place well...
...River (1935), which contains more of his powerful passages than anything else he wrote. What "drove" Tom to write is best expressed by him in his book of letters and more pronouncedly in his Letters to His Mother. It's all there for the reader to grasp, whether Turnbull covers...