Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Melodious Schmalz. Kreisler's technique was sometimes shaky (he had an occasional tendency to slip off key), but the tone was always glowing, the rhythms dynamic, the conceptions full of grandeur. A cultivated man who spoke eight languages and had a scholar's grasp of history, philosophy and mathematics, he brought to every performance a warmth and simplicity that spoke straight through the mind to the heart...
...Gerry Williams, who stands only 5 ft. 8 in. tall, weighs 145 Ibs.. and looks like a refugee from Biddy Basketball. But Williams' scrawny legs are like steel springs. He can high-jump 6 ft. 6 in., enjoys nothing more than snatching a rebound out of the grasp of a startled enemy giant...
...Bateman, assigned by headquarters to investigate the bookstore, shifts allegiance and becomes the cameraman. Each is held to the bookseller by his hurts, but each, unexpectedly, is strengthened more than corrupted. Julius approaches self-knowledge; Louise is subtly encouraged to face marriage and raise a family; Veronica's grasp of reality is strengthened; Bateman, numbed by an early divorce, comes to life again in an affair with Veronica...
When they arrived they were greeted by the King's press secretary, who announced: "the King reads books at a prodigious rate and therefore has a lightning grasp of the weather conditions in his kingdom and of all the statistical, economic, political, social, and philosophical factors of the situation. Since this is a constitutional monarchy, however, he has graciously consented to address his subjects...
...more university presidents back on the firing line defending pure learning. But, as he sees it, most presidents now "spend so much time justifying what we're doing that we don't have time to do what we're justifying." Nor does the public yet adequately grasp the principle of academic freedom: "The doctor cannot help the patient who insists on making his own diagnosis; the philosopher cannot communicate his wisdom to the kibitzer who keeps telling him what to think...