Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Surely no great intellect is required in order to understand that goalie baiting, which often reaches vicious extremes, displays an utter disregard for sportsmanship and common decency. Certainly the Golden Rule, however trite it may seem, is not beyond the intellectual grasp of even those morons who insist on detracting from good hockey by their gratuitous abuse of athletes who happen to play for an opposing team...
...impervious. Looking at newspaper photographs of emaciated women combing the ground for blades of wheat to give their dying children is little different from reading unemployment statistics in Newsweek. We look, shudder, and lament, and then run to make the last feature at the Brattle. Perhaps we could grasp 'the magnitude of the situation if some international group flew in a group of Bengali or Nigerian villagers to Harvard Square, where they would compete with chanting Hare Krishna people for the attention of the people hurrying...
...last story, The Cloud, possesses one of Fowles' faults?a facile, painterly dreaminess?without his vigorous grasp on the facts that make illusion matter. Fowles' themes in all these elegant stories are the surprise of passion v. the safety of tradition, abstraction v. spontaneity, and more broadly, the secrets of art (including Fowles' own art) played against a fictive "reality" that represents merely his own deeper lamination of imagined life. Fowles, like any other storyteller, tells his tale?and then has the shimmering perversity to let his readers know that maybe he was lying all the time, or that life...
With victory now clearly within its grasp, the Bruin offense made one last-gasp attempt to give the game away. A third down fumble by halfback Mike Sokolowski was grabbed by Harvard's Joe Sciolla, setting the Crimson offense up at the Brown 24 with 1:09 left in the game...
...explain a point is very different from the intellectual's examples. It's much more out of the stuff of lower-class and middle-class working people. For instance, there have been policemen in my class. Their knowledge of politics is unique--it adds to my own grasp of conflicts in urban political life...