Word: graspingly
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...Hsueh Hsi, Brainwasher Ai hurriedly ate crow: "I Bailed to grasp the problem . . . My mistaken views were the result of my failure to undertake class analysis . . ." Ai's 10,000-word apology was eloquent, but it was too late to save him from severe reprimand in the next issue of his own magazine: "Certain comrades have been imbued with strong dogmatism and party jargon . . . Many articles have been characterized by emptiness and bluffing...
...hammer & sickle. The party firebrands were unnaturally mild: gone were the outright attacks on the Vatican, the sneers at liberals. The crucial municipal elections in some 2,000 communities in southern Italy were only two weeks away, and Rome, the greatest prize, lay within the Reds' grasp...
...flowing silver beard. In contrast to that awesome image of masculine rigor, it also recalls the dark, soft femininity of his most famed creation-the Mono. Lisa. This painting, which hangs in the Louvre, is probably as well known as any in existence-though few admirers pretend to grasp it fully. A portrait of the wife of a Florentine merchant named Francesco del Giocondo, it has been the subject of a towering stack of critical works. Summarizing the comments of the centuries, Johns Hopkins Professor George Boas once concluded, simply and truly, that each age sees the Mono, Lisa...
...before West Germany's "peace contract" with its former enemies. Forced to give ground, and himself angry at France's conduct in the Saar (TIME, Feb. 11), 76-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer abruptly canceled further talks with the French; they had been unable, he said, to grasp "the European idea" and had double-crossed him. His action, in turn, jeopardized the political future of France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, who has trouble enough trying to persuade his countrymen" to bargain with Germans...
...illogical, folklore-spouting Vellkovsky, George Gamow, Consultant to the A.E.C. and Prof. of Theoretical Physics at George Washington University, certainly has a throught grasp of the concepts involved in "The Creation of the Universe." His treatment of subjects ranging from: "The Private Lives of the Stars" to "The Critchfield H-H Process," while easy to read and follow, is altogether sound and rigorous...