Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...archaeologist, when he is fulfilling his highest function, is engaged in historical research and for that purpose needs a wide knowledge not only of the sciences that man has acquired, but of human psychology so that he may understand man as well as things...
...Cathedral was designed by Cram. If my memory is not at fault, the original architect was John La Farge, a considerable part of whose plan was embodied in stone. One regrets that a page of TIME should carry what is at least unfair, even if not inaccurate. Doubtless you understand that I do not wish to detract from the fame of Mr. Cram. I know you wish to present the truth and the whole truth...
...Properly, the theatre should be a business, just like any other business. I want to tell the boys that I may seem a natural boy scout in the way I want to help them understand, but I want to explain the theatre to them. And the business of the theatre is creating something by thinking theatrically. It is a business, too, of supply and demand. Just now the demand is not as lofty as it might be, but that is the newspapers' business...
...Miss Jane Cowl, I understand, has praised 'Desire Under the Elms.' She declares it to be a great play, and that it teaches a great moral lesson. You know the plot, I suppose. That plot is typical--all too typical of the sort of thing that is being exploited in New York. Producers insist on neurotic plays, plays that means something. The public or a very definite part of it, supports them...
...supper in the Savoy Hotel, London, at which Loie Fuller, dancer, and Mme. Yvette Guilbert performed for him as if he were royalty. Where another would thump his chest in robust braggadocio, he speaks with a sly wink and a deprecating gesture, for he wants the reader to understand that Corbett was a prize-fighter who wore a gardenia in his buttonhole...