Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rodeo events, still delight the fans and break the bones of contestants. Shot into the arena on the back of an insanely bucking bull or bronc, the rider must stay aboard for eight frantic seconds, holding on by his spurs and a rope cinch that he is allowed to grasp with only one hand. If the cowboy survives the frenzied ride, two judges score his effort for degree of difficulty and quality, usually awarding the best performance 75 or 80 out of a possible 100 points...
...play, intellectually difficult as well as theatrically so, must work as a philosophical exposition on the human spirit in a hostile world if it is to work at all. For that to happen the acting must be especially sympathetic and the play's principals must have a thorough grasp on the deep conflicts that come to the fore. That the Loeb's production is not a total success is only to be expected given the difficulty of the material. Nonetheless, the end product remains disappointing...
...Institutions are changing in ways that their leaders cannot always grasp. Churches have been dramatically altered by internal disputes over questions of social activism, morals and even creed. Educators have grown uncertain about the social and intellectual purposes of education. Politicians throughout the West have trouble determining the boundaries involved in a free-enterprise system mixed with government control. Moreover, in place of the heady economic expansion of the past quarter-century, they must now cope with the counterfeit of growth?inflation. Even those who do not accept the gloomy prophecies of the Club of Rome realize that at least...
...period is naive, as every freshman discovers. Selecting a melange of half-courses from the catalogue inevitably involves a large dose of arbitrary choices. Besides, what is crucial is not whether one spends freshman year at Harvard studying Roman civilization or the modern city but whether one gains a grasp of what intellectual inquiry is about and how it can affect and inform all aspects of life...
...floor of Congress," Walter Lippmann once said, "until he has been heard around the world." During his 30 years in the Senate -15 as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee-William Fulbright has usually caught the ear of the world and finally his colleagues with his prescience, persistence and grasp of great issues. Often he has been nearly alone in his views and often, it turned out, he has been right...