Word: grasp
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Jackson is an ethnic-group candidate of the sort that wrested the 20th-century Democratic majority away from a half-century-long Republican ascendancy. If the party is too ossified to grasp that it deserves to decline. But why castigate Jackson for serving his constituency rather than his party? Hirschorn mimics several syndicated columnists in regretting Jackson's bid to change primary run-off rules in the South that have barred Black candidacies; revising procedures would send racist Southern whites charging into the arms of the Republican Party, we're told. So what? That might be a blessing in disguise...
...concrete of Manhattan, enlightenment is not involved in the trade. Everett's career as an editor is static; an early marriage dissolves in diffidence, and his wife and young daughter move on. Happiness, Everett concludes, is like one of those ideas at the university: too difficult to grasp, and therefore best evaded. In the end, after another failed marriage and numerous unsatisfying affairs, the compulsive wanderer is still at the border, both of feeling and of countries, as he sojourns in Europe. "Why go home?" he wonders. "Why go back...
...final hours of my incumbency as Secretary of State, even after my resignation, this opportunity was seized. Peace was within our grasp. Then, in a series of miscalculations that divided American diplomacy and dissipated American influence, peace was thrown away. The situation we now face in Lebanon is the result...
...that we had labored so hard to grasp, and had come so close to grasping, slipped away, with consequences not yet wholly revealed...
Henry Kissinger's "A Plan to Reshape NATO" [SPECIAL SECTION, March 5] is a brilliant exposé of the strains within the Atlantic Alliance. "Drift will lead to unraveling" if the changes Kissinger proposes are not implemented soon. It is astonishing that the West fails to grasp not only the continuing reality of the Soviet threat but also the potentially disastrous situation that may result from continual stalling...