Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hugh Murray's attack on CRIMSON music reviews betrays not only lamentable confusion but also outright inaccuracy. He fails to grasp the real philosophy and functions of music criticism. The music critic has at least five important roles, briefly: (1) as a reporter, giving the relevant facts of a musical event; (2) as a teacher placing musical works in a relation to other works and to the cultural and intellectual climate of the times; (3) as an evaluator, stating his opinions both of the music itself and its performance; (4) as a champion and protector of musical life...
...eyes could still smolder and twinkle with their old fire. During the last years of his eclipse, old friends and enemies alike had noticed in Churchill's speech a tendency to slur and meander, but in the heat of this latest campaign, with victory once more within his grasp, the old leader gave no sign of such deterioration...
...were as important as lectures, said Dorgan. "Don't be led astray," he warned, "by that hackneyed phrase, 'academic freedom'." "Freedom," he said, "is freedom to do what you ought to do." He left any further definition of what a free citizen ought to do for the audience to grasp by implication...
...H.L.U. letter that definition "begins at home," and asked the H.Y.R.C. what it supports. It continued, "you can on the one hand grasp the isolationism of Dirksen and with the other reach out for the internationalism of Lodge. You can in one breath accept the principle of McCarthyism and in the next subscribe to the 'Declaration of Conscience' of Margaret Chase Smith...
There, his grasp of the Torah soon brought him to the attention of the faculty. White-maned Dr. Solomon Schechter, the seminary's president, took special pains with the shy scholar. Walking with him on the street one day, Dr. Schechter stopped at a newsstand to read the latest World Series scores. "Can you play baseball?" he asked. "No," admitted Finkelstein. "Remember this," said the old man. "Unless you can play baseball, you'll never get to be a rabbi in America...