Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crimson football coach Joe Restic told me last fall that "things look different down on the field," indicating that I didn't fully grasp what was going on. The same type of criticism has been leveled at The Crimson sports staff this winter. To this I answer, "Yes, things do look different on the field, but they look different from the stands as well." And it is wrong to allege that one can only understand what is going on from a ground or court level. Crimson sports writers are generally people who follow the sport they cover persistently and diligently...
Professors of English are not by nature practical men. They are not accustomed to thinking of work and pleasure as mutually exclusive. They are also self-indulgent. They would not dream of saving up Shakespeare for a rainy day. They are also irrational. They do not readily grasp the logic by which the present is emptied of beauty and significance so that acorns can be stored up for a golden future. A professor of English who becomes a dean is bound to become a hypocrite or a subversive because what he wants is Athens and Florence...
...concentration cannot properly be said to possess a distinctive discipline or mode of inquiry; the study of government, or political science, is often cited as an example. In addition, mastering a discipline is no easy matter. The vast majority of students probably emerge from college with an adequate grasp of no more than a single method of inquiry. Even this capacity may erode over time if it does not relate to experiences and problems that recur in the student's later life...
Massachusetts politicians now finally seem to appreciate the country's determination to avoid new leaps into corporate liberal programs. Kennedy plans to grasp the Democratic presidential nomination, but knows now that if he runs like McGovern he will enjoy the same success Kennedy thus must continue to play at campus fringe radicalism while maneuvering Democratic forces along pre-McGovern battlelines social security housing subsidies, welfare statism. He thinks he can win there, So Kennedy's side-burns go up the ducktail goes away, Westwood disappears beneath the boots of a Texas oilmen's lawyer and a tone of magnanimity enters...
...DEEPLY DRAWN stories of previous collections were split between nostalgia for the moral individualism and bucolic sensibility that his upbringing nurtured, and concern for the conservatism and stagnation that existed simultaneously at levels of town life beyond the youngster's grasp. The farm where the young Updike and his fictional stand-ins were brought up is a cruel but an ordered place, dominated by the dreams of his mother and tempered by the stoic reserve of his father; the towns which lie outside are usually dreary places, full of people governed by lethargy, and occasionally swayed by social currents. Updike...