Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wouldn't be too sure. I suspect that the young of the world grasp that the man whose poster beckons from their walls cannot be that irrelevant, this secular saint ready to die because he could not tolerate a world where los pobres de la tierra, the displaced and dislocated of history, would be eternally relegated to its vast margins...
...Rosen exhibits an "exceptional clarity of thought...[and] a bold and incisive mode of expression. He really has an extraordinary grasp of historical detail in many areas," Moravcsik wrote in an e-mail message...
...appropriate at this moment to grasp for traces of Harvard maturity? How, in a Commencement reflection, can I defend the self-images so jubilantly assumed by myself and others...
Brendel's playing is distinguished by its heightened intellectual and emotional intensity, by his ability to energize details while sustaining taut lines, by his infallible grasp of musical architecture and by his extraordinary empathy with composers. His performances often achieve a sense of inevitability. Surely, a listener feels, this is what the composer intended...
...peace deal. "Washington's ability to control the situation is waning as pressure mounts for a deal," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Even among countries that have supported NATO's objectives, there's a growing lack of faith in the present U.S. administration's grasp of diplomacy and war." With nobody planning a fight to the finish, the battle is now to win the peace...