Word: graspingly
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...ironic that a playwright with such a grasp of the tragedy of urban youth has to justify his work through a Harvard degree," Paul Suchecki '77, who directed the play at the Loeb, said the other...
...think I was at least 15 years late." He did study, briefly, at the Academic Julian; but since he spoke not a word of French, the instruction had little effect. He felt unfocused, self-indulgent and queasy, surrounded by an already academized modern tradition that he could not grasp...
...They're not lost," Pollack said. "We just don't have as firm a grasp of them as we should...
...mistake. What they're looking for is a 47-second argument between me and another candidate or something like that." Television coverage bears him out. Charles Mohr of the Times, one of the fairest of reporters, noted that Carter didn't seem to grasp fully "that if he wishes on a given day to draw national attention to a major statement on an important issue, he cannot also make a biting or catchy gibe at President Ford or react to a presidential remark with an angry comment." This may be sound practical advice, but what does...
...ethics will stand in the way of a curriculum geared largely towards sending students to corporate law firms. These law firms often work for the highest bidder, no matter how unethical that bidder may be. Also, it is not clear how students in law school will be able to grasp the situations in which they will have to make ethical decisions without first experiencing the situations themselves. Without feeling the pressures that color the real situations, things tend to look black and white...