Word: graspingly
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...didn't come to join us, he shouldn't have come at all," one boy exclaims; by this time the credibility of the scene has been sacrificed to narrative clarity, and there is honest question whether Antonioni is in control of his material. The lack of total realistic grasp reoccurs in the handling of police and in the diminished effectiveness of the desert love scene after the Open Theatre is introduced...
...experienced what Godfearing people of an earlier age used to describe as 'a call.' Yes, yes, I thought. Civilization is in danger and it's worth trying, if only to make people realize how fragile civilization is and how easily it might slip from our grasp. I went on eating smoked salmon and the whole plan came...
...GOOD things." the up-and-coming assistant professor of Philosophy postulated cheerfully while scraping the jimmies out of the bottom of his dish at Brigham's, "must come to an end." Which is the attitude we must all take in the next few weeks as we reluctantly release our grasp on the Interim...
Thoughtful businessmen are just beginning to grasp the enormity of the change that confronts them. By contrast with the 1960s, predicts Arjay Miller, former president of Ford Motor Co. and now dean of Stanford's Graduate School of Business, the 1970s will bring "increasing emphasis-and rightly so-on public goods." By Miller's definition, "public goods" are those not subject to the private marketplace: education, welfare, subsidized housing, safety, parks, clean air and water. "The shift from private to public goods is a tribute to the private sector of the economy," he says. "It has done...
...local and central power in China. American General Joseph Stillwell, for instance, was furious when Chiang Kai-shek ignored his advice to reorganize the Chinese Army in 1942. "With the U. S. on his side and backing him," Stillwell wrote in his diary, "the stupid little ass fails to grasp the big opportunity of his life...