Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...authentic tragic hero; Welles makes him merely a monomaniac of vengeance. In book and play, Ahab speaks of the "malice inscrutable" of the White Whale. His mate Starbuck, the voice of reason, reminds him that "a poor dumb thing" can have no malice. What Welles fails to grasp is that it is the inscrutability that maddens Ahab, for Moby Dick is the universal mystery of things as they are. When Ahab probes with his lance for the great whale's heart, he seeks to know the secret of the universe, striving, in the same moment, to destroy the neutral...
...letter did I imply, as Cowan says, that "neither [Cowan] nor any white man can come to grips with the situation Baldwin portrays." I stated in my letter that White Americans can, should, and must come to grips with Baldwin's portrayal. But they cannot expect to grasp the true meaning and depth of the Negro's situation without experiencing confusion, threats, and perhaps much worse. To think otherwise is, I believe, to deny Baldwin's characterization of the Negro's reality and to seek shelter under a retarded variant of liberalism...
...sciences and the humanities come alive in the people who study them. Scientists and humanists are, and have been, different people. They have different backgrounds and different motivations. (b) In reporting their professional activities, scientists and humanists use different kinds of concepts, different methods to picture or grasp the world. The differing ways to judge a meaningful statement, in the sciences and the humanities, reflect two deeply different orientations. These professional differences carry over to some extent into undergraduates' informal life and through give undergraduates often disparate approaches to the same problems or experiences. (c) The professional languages...
Boldrini predictably vowed to continue Mattei's policies, which involved buying huge shipments of oil from the Russians, offering cut-rate competition for private Western oil majors for drilling and refining rights in Africa and Asia, and aggressively tightening E.N.I.'s grasp on the Italian economy through interests ranging from fertilizers to cement. But Boldrini is neither young nor dynamic and much prefers his off time job as statistics professor at Rome University. He is being referred to as an "interim Pope...
...intense effort to draw dramatic situations from people's most primitive conflicts. Everything is straight and crude: the wedding brings together the son of a powerful widow (who wants him to produce more sons to carry on a family vendetta that killed her husband) and the daughter of a grasping landowner (who wants to grasp more land...