Word: misunderstands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed to some of them oldfashioned: he loved virtue, in an unembarrassed and trusting fashion. Some smart undergraduates might misunderstand his generosity and think him gullible, but most of his pupils learned to admire and respect him for his unique combination of learning and innocence...
...particularly fascinating vicissitudes of a raffish racing man (Cornel Wilde), his Back Bay bride (Maureen O'Hara) and his somewhat Bohemian girl friend (Helen Walker). Miss O'Hara wants Wilde to settle down and stop living out of Miss Walker's pocket; she also tends to misunderstand the free-&-easy way these old friends kiss each other...
...steps. Among other things, he must admit that he cannot take it or leave it; he has got to quit cold. Members are ready, day or night, to answer a desperate call for help from a backsliding member. Secret of the A.A. help: fellow alcoholics do not scold nor misunderstand an alcoholic who wants to quit; they know exactly what hurdles he has to be helped over...
...into which we are entering is what might be called the religious phase of human history. But do not misunderstand; by religious we do not mean that men will turn to God, but rather that the indifference to the absolute which characterized the liberal phase of civilization will be succeeded by a passion for an absolute. From now on the struggle will be not for colonies and national rights, but for the souls of men. . . . From now on men will divide themselves into two religions-understood again as surrender to an absolute. The conflict of the future is between...
...Those who speak as if the humanities were fighting a rear-guard action in these days of science and technology and the common man," he said, "misunderstand the current scene...