Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the North, Florida may not reside at the political center of the U.S., but the morose attitude of its citizens toward problems and politics in this election year may well be typical. If so, the American voter is going to prove a prickly-prize for the politicians to grasp...
...major social event. The heaviest burden will fall on him, not on the incumbent President with all the built-in resources for reaching the public and making news that the White House provides. The question is what alternative to the present madness exists for the challenger to grasp. Herewith, free to the Democrats, a modest proposal...
...club was founded by Peccei back in 1968 with the avowed purpose of exploring the large issues confronting society. "We needed something to make mankind's predicament more visible, more easy to grasp," says Peccei. To that end, the Volkswagen Foundation granted the club $250,000 in 1970. Peccei turned to an international team of scientists led by M.I.T. Computer Expert Dennis Meadows and told them to study the most basic issue of all-survival...
...gets the feeling that politics doesn't interest him excessively; that his basic emotional reaction to a political situation is so personal, and his intellectual impulse so morally abstract, that the modesty of the man for once restrains his criticism's impact. He has none of the ability to grasp the mass psychosis that a man like Mailer has. (It should be noted that he recognizes the usefulness of Mailer's talent, but sticks to his own game...
...chess player. I can see moves coming and I'm ready to make them. When you're a rookie you feel just like another one of the pieces. You can't see everybody because you're down among them. But when you have total grasp and knowledge of what's going on, then you feel you can effectively maneuver people around, manipulate your offense to take advantage of what the defense is showing...