Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congratulating the seminar on "their clear, scientific grasp of the problems involved," Menzel stated that the video tape proposal would be "seriously considered in setting the final specifications of the satellite...
When lovely woman stoops to the folly of autobiography, the enterprise is all too often flawed by malice, self-pity or a simple failure to grasp the fact that a book is not always interesting to others because its author is interesting to herself. Lady Diana Cooper escapes these dangers. From the first volume of her three-decker autobiography, The Rainbow Comes and Goes (TIME, Oct. 27, 1958), it was clear that Lady Diana is a natural if artless self-historian. Moreover, she has the great advantage that almost every one-she knows is Someone...
...characteristic ways, though always it was the teacher who communicated enthusiasm whom they remembered well. Some of the graduates attacked scholars and researchers "I am really upset about ... philosophy ... becoming academic." Others remembered the excitement of heating researcher teach: "the people who are better organized and have a firm grasp of the material are the people who are really doing some exceptional things in their field ... are makes the whole field come alive or speak to you..." Yet even where the graduates disagreed on researcher vs. teacher, there was a consensus that the appeal of a good teacher...
...Porter reader is invitingly and inevitably addressed as "you." This means everybody: "Just consider these facts and you'll grasp the deep personal meaning of this to you-whoever you are, wherever you are." If the "you" is fissionable, Sylvia splits it: "you, the small business man" and "you, the consumer," to quote two salutations joined in one recent Porter column. "You" also is highly possessive: it is "your recession," "your cost of living," "your pocketbook," and, of course, "your dollar...
...first art Hulme created when he returned to London in 1908, at the age of 25, was imagist poetry. Hulme preached the primacy of the image, since he believed that man's only sure grasp of reality was through analogy and metaphor. Though his disciple Ezra Pound gave the school its name and became its chief panjandrum, it was Hulme who wrote the first imagist verse, including what T. S. Eliot has called "two or three of the most beautiful short poems in the language." Sample...