Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Have you taught it to grasp the fringes of the earth and shake the Dogstar from its place...
...everything he said and in the relaxed but strong determination in which he spoke about his goals being the same as the goals of the Revolution and that its problems were his problems, I began to grasp why the Cuban belief in the development of the New Man is so central to the entire revolutionary process. The young people we met all over Cuba are the freest and happiest people I've ever met. They feel free because they recognize the necessity of doing exactly what they're doing for the welfare of the people of Cuba...
...Harlem of a heroin overdose last December (TIME, Dec. 26). He asks Ralphie what he thinks of Walter's death. "That's his business," Ralphie mutters, staring grimly at the floor. It is plain that the ideas of death or imprisonment are beyond the twelve-year-old's grasp...
...didn't come to join us, he shouldn't have come at all," one boy exclaims; by this time the credibility of the scene has been sacrificed to narrative clarity, and there is honest question whether Antonioni is in control of his material. The lack of total realistic grasp reoccurs in the handling of police and in the diminished effectiveness of the desert love scene after the Open Theatre is introduced...
...experienced what Godfearing people of an earlier age used to describe as 'a call.' Yes, yes, I thought. Civilization is in danger and it's worth trying, if only to make people realize how fragile civilization is and how easily it might slip from our grasp. I went on eating smoked salmon and the whole plan came...