Word: graspings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...different perspective on the 1976 campaigns was provided the next day, when three journalists took the floor in a Science Center forum to criticize their profession for its failure to grasp what they termed the real issues of the long march from Georgia...
...belief that his arch-enemy Moriarty is after him. The Seven Percent Solution, the most recent in a flood of Sherlock Holmes films released in the last few years, depicts a Holmes who still has all of his marvellously keen powers of perception but who has lost his grasp on reality. The detective master-mind who embodies the power of rationality, who penetrates the most obscure and baffling mysteries and restores them to intelligibility, has become a victim of his own delusions...
More even than his uncertain conception of Malory, Steinbeck's misunderstanding of the nature of the legend itself creates problems in the work. He seems to have had little grasp of the innate flaws in the characters of Arthur, Lancelot or Gwenyver that led them inevitably to their end. He wrote to Otis, "Why this work should come to be known as the Morte d'Arthur I will never know." The comment indicates that he didn't see the story as a series of sevents leading to a climactic and all-encompassing death, a statement about human life...
...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...
...They're not lost," Pollack said. "We just don't have as firm a grasp of them as we should...