Word: graspingly
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...European missionaries and businessmen who have crossed the bridge with their wives and children since then have been forced to walk, or more frequently, to limp along the footpath bearing on their weary backs or in their hands those few possessions they were able to wrench from the Communist grasp...
...Stevens "showed a lack of competency in this matter which at times suggested bewilderment. He did not grasp the far-reaching and deleterious effects of such indecision on Army personnel . . . Vacillation and appeasement were evident in many of his actions . . . He harbored the hope that termination of investigation of [the Army] could be accomplished by this method . . . The problem of Mr. Schine should not have been permitted to go beyond preliminary examination of Mr. Schine's qualifications, or lack thereof, and a firm decision based on established regulations...
...full critical grasp of Colette's work. Author Crosland is so devoted to her subject that the book is full of clumsy curtsies-as when Colette's perceptiveness as a movie critic is illustrated with the un fortunate statement: "She . . . knew that the name of Mickey Rooney would be heard again." Nonetheless, the book is a timely and handsome reminder of an extraordinary career...
...absence of basic information is particularly noticeable in the fields of literature and history. Instead of being concentrated, channeled, continually kept aware of that 'spiritual duration' which is manifest in the evolution of thought, the attention roams distractedly and fails to grasp the unity of culture: only scattered components remain in the mind-ruins, one might almost say. At best, when the youthful mind strives to connect these disjecta membra without having in its possession the means necessary to resurrect them-the historical sequence, the sense of time, the network of causal relations-the student...
Smug Little Incubus. Author Brophy is Londoner of Irish descent. At 24 she writes clean, cool English prose, shows a perceptive grasp of her material and has turned out a pointed and amusing little satire. Her last chapter, entitled "Soliloquy of an Embryo," follows the brief career of Edwina's "snug, smug self-sufficient little incubus." It is the kind of fantastic literary device that only a very competent and very serene writer could bring off. Author Brophy manages...