Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chosen for his post by the National Association of American Oarsmen (NAAO), Gladstone served in a similar capacity as assistant Olympic crew coach under Harry Parker in 1972. "Steve is a very good coach," Parker said yesterday. "He has a good grasp of the situation and really knows how to make a competitive boat...
...WOULD BE PLAIN silly to suggest that Radcliffe women should reject the opportunities that now await them, that we should throw it all away and say "How can we cruise through graduate school, when we never fought for the right to be here?" But we can grasp the connection between ourselves and the women who made us shudder two years ago. We can begin to understand what it was that influenced the swing toward granting some women their due: it was the phenomenon of women pooling talents and resources to make themselves heard...
...Matus. In essence, Castaneda's books are the story of how a European rationalist was initiated into the practice of Indian sorcery. They cover a span of ten years, during which, under the weird, taxing and sometimes comic tutelage of Don Juan, a young academic labored to penetrate and grasp what he calls the "separate reality" of the sor cerer's world. The learning of enlightenment is a common theme in the favorite reading of young Americans today (example: Hermann Hesse's nov el Siddhartha). The difference is that Castaneda does not present his Don Juan cycle as fiction...
Shultz is seldom short on either fact or theory, although the softspoken, smooth-faced economist seldom expresses his ideas in song. His quick grasp of facts and theories, his skill in persuading the federal bureaucracy to act on them-plus an ironclad loyalty to the President-are the qualities that have prompted Richard Nixon to keep investing his Treasury Secretary with added clout. By now Shultz has become one of the two or three most powerful men in Washington...
...represents the high point of a person's existence, there is something wrong in either the situation or the person. And in Northern Ireland it is clearly not the people. It is just this feeling of life lost, perhaps unrecoverable, yet barely out of reach of each person's grasp that occupies the central position in Marcel Ophuls's new film, A Sense of Loss...