Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the week was out, many a McCarthy supporter could grasp, for the first time, that it is possible to be both anti-McCarthy and antiCommunist. In the week of McCarthy v. the Republicans, Joe McCarthy lost...
...from Rage. The way in which Dylan (pronounced Dillon) Thomas celebrates God and man is not always easy to grasp. He thinks in soliloquy, like Hamlet, perhaps in the hope that the modern world, which seldom hears the modern poet, may sometimes overhear him. Unlike many modern poets, Thomas has never been bitten with the "social consciousness" bug; again like Hamlet, he wrestles with the dilemma of self-consciousness...
Power & Glory. In May Lenin had a stroke and at the end of the year a second stroke. His place was taken by a troika or triumvirate. Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Stalin. Trotsky was already aware of, and alarmed at, Stalin's stealthy grasp of power. Lenin defended Stalin and warned against a split in the party. He began dictating a testament in which he reviewed his possible successors: "The two most able leaders of the present Central Committee are Stalin and Trotsky . . . Stalin has concentrated enormous power in his hands; and I am not sure that he always knows...
Maybe somebody, come to think of it, has already written this badly-needed volume, and this year's selection committee is hiding it from us. Yes, by thunder, that's it! What else could account for the excellent grasp of theory the committee displayed? Look at it this...
...purpose of Gen. Ed. Ahf is not to learn how to write "purple prose," to "sling bull," or fill pages with a quota of words, but to strengthen the student's grasp of his native tongue, to smooth the wrinkles in his writing technique. In short, it is to do what no course in humanities, or even literature can be expected to do that is to offer the majority of those who will never darken the doors of Warren House the opportunity of improving their writing ability during the first two semesters at Harvard. Joseph M. Cronin...