Word: grasped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lawrence Durrell claims in his introduction, the philosophy of non-attachment, but the consistent recognition of the dialectical oppositions within the psyche. "Man lives under the law: where love is, there also is hate, where respect, there is also envy." Throughout the letters, he expresses an intuitive grasp of the complex interplay between ambivalent forces. From the pain and pleasure of birth in bloodshed, man destroys as he creates, dies as he lives...
...faces were always his specialty. A John portrait began slowly, with a great deal of staring, circling about and staccato grunting. But once John had a grasp of his subject, the portrait would form almost on its own. Shaw, Dylan Thomas, Hardy and Yeats, lord mayors, marchese, duchesses, generals and politicians-all felt the pierce...
...Carson the Civic Association is hypocritical and elitist. He hinted broadly in answer to an opening question that the CCA was responsible for an electoral system "which becomes a lottery at a certain stage . . . . I don't think the people are stupid, but there is little or no grasp of issues--if people are operating under a system they don't understand, it is no good." (The people of Cambridge seem to have misunderstood Proportional Representation for twenty years...
Intellectually it is easy to grasp all the subtlety of the movie; and this is just the problem. It is clear what reactions Rossellini hopes to evoke, but the viewer can only say to himself mechanically "now I'm supposed to feel pity, now fear, etc." and most of the time winds up feeling nothing...
...recognizes and studies the limitations that immaturity puts on learning. According to Switzerland's Jean Piaget, top scholar on the subject, the toddler is an egocentric who understands things only in terms of what he does about them ("A hole is to dig"). A five-year-old cannot grasp the principle of the conservation of quantity; he thinks that a piece of clay becomes "bigger" when it is flattened. The idea of transitivity eludes seven-year-olds, who cannot understand the statement: "A is bigger than B, and B is bigger than C, means that A is bigger than...