Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your June 18 analysis of the apparent regravitation of Communist Tito into the Soviet orbit was highly perceptive, and displayed a rare insight into the subtleties of the new Kremlin approach to international relations. Americans must grasp the uncomfortable fact that Khrushchev is attacking the U.S. on its own grounds. By seeking to shed the most odious stigma attached to modern Communism, i.e., Stalinism, Russia purports to have seized the initiative in assuming a constructive, nonaggressive attitude toward the world's tensions...
...hindrance to its penetration in society. The ramifications of orgonomy into all branches of science, stemming from the single basic discovery of orgone energy, the erstwhile hypothetical ether which science, for good reason, has never been able to abandon, stagger the average and academic imagination. People cannot readily grasp a science whose track leads from the understanding of neurosis to "Cosmic Orgone Engineering." They become suspicious, get scared off by the magnitude of what confronts them. Yet all of Reich's great findings are factual, demonstrable, irrefutable, as were those of Galileo. How much longer will it be before...
...been called the American Daumier. Perhaps, however, he doesn't quite come up to the classic quality of this master. These logical depth nor the plastic subtlety. Yet Gropper has obviously caught much of Daumier's spirit in his broad caricature style and monumental figures, in his simplification and grasp of essential gesture, and even in his themes. The other influence to which Gropper is indebted is Goya. Gropper is currently doing a series of prints entitled Capriccios, the way Goya did. The themes are aloofness, confusion, man being eaten by machines. when they don't look like Thomas Hart...
...Navy is no accident of seniority. Last year able, Navy-wise Secretary Thomas began looking for a replacement for retiring Admiral Robert Carney as Chief of Naval Operations. Thomas was keenly aware of the nuclear revolution and deeply concerned about the Navy's failure to grasp its full significance. Thomas wanted a man with the vision and drive required by the atom. He wanted someone who understood naval aviation. But most of all he wanted a man that the Navy would be glad to follow into its tomorrow. This had to be one of the old Navy...
...bottom two doubles teams split their matches, leaving the varsity with a 7-6 edge. However, Junta and Harris were having trouble with Farrin and Sofield, and it appeared that Harvard might let the Big Three crown slip out of its grasp...