Word: grasps
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Still, a complaint must be made. Obviously Cooke assumes that his readers have no solid grasp of U.S. history. In this he is certainly correct. His solution, though, is to cover the whole subject in a chalktalk. This he might have done, and usefully, but not in a 400-page book. Among the subjects not mentioned are the Spanish-American War, the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, the building of the Erie Canal, the suffragettes, baseball, universal secondary education and the establishment of the land-grant colleges, the writing of Thoreau, Melville, Twain, O'Neill, Faulkner, Fitzgerald and Hemingway...
Each of the three heroes in Searches and Seizures is searching for something, some meaning to his life. But they grasp on to meaningless banalities only after passively experiencing epileptic-like seizures of will...
...head of the roughly 14 million-member AFL-CIO. Usery will leave his $40,000-a-year post as President Nixon's chief labor negotiator and director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service-from which an appointment as Secretary of Labor might have been easy to grasp. As head of the AFL-CIO'S newly created department of organization and field services, he will be come the No. 3 man in the union, behind Meany and Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland...
...than anything else possibly could have been; he rejected Southern chauvinism and identified completely with Southern pain and defeat. In the end, Aaron sees the War as perhaps the central experience in James' life--an all the more tragic and profound experience because he could never quite grasp it. The War hovered around the edges of his consciousness, distorting his sensibility and point of view...
Boorstin concludes his trilogy--which was 25 years in the works--by saying that the American sense of mission has dwindled into an unwilling sense of momentum. We, he concludes, have lost our grasp over things while things continue to exert their influence on us. It is time to turn this around. It is time to abandon our democracy of things and to concentrate our attention on finally becoming a democracy of people in hopes of attaining true human freedom...