Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Discussing the postwar denial of the romantic concept of "inspiration," Krenek said "the composer doesn't believe in inspiration any longer." The romantic's inspiration was predetermined, Krenek said, by his technical equipment-by his grasp of four-part harmony and counter-point...
...certain minimum conditions. The ancient Greeks had some careful notions about democracy, and none better than Jason's eloquent appeal in Euripides' Medea that, A good Greek land hath been Thy lasting home, not barbary. Thou hast seen Our ordered life, and justice, and the long Still grasp of law not changing with the strong Man's pleasure...
...individual A murders individual B, then is apprehended and put to death, he cannot kill individuals C, D, E, and so on. The deterrent effect on individual A has been 100%. This is such simple logic that even a sociologist should be able to grasp...
...balance-of-payments deficit is the least-understood major problem facing the nation today. Many of the businessmen most affected by it confess that they do not grasp all its vagaries and nuances. But they are convinced that when a relatively modest $3 billion deficit forces a nation with a $650 billion economy to reduce its role in international finance, then something is wrong with the world's bookkeeping...
Frankfurter seemed a prime example of the futility of trying to predict how a new justice will vote. But partisans of both sides failed to grasp his steady, if elusive, consistency. To spur "the self-confidence of a free people," he insisted on the primacy of legislative action. Thus, he lambasted the pre-1936 court for flouting the popular will. Thus, he later upheld anti-Communist laws based on detailed congressional findings. As he saw it, the court was no more entitled to second-guess the legislature in the '40s and '50s than it had been...