Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Meier-Graefe's book, to be exact, is not a biography in the classic sense of the word. To put the matter generally, it is the attempt of an astute and typically German mind to understand and to some extent lay bare a notice and typically Russian mind. And the attempt is singularly successful. From the very nature of the works with which he has to deal, a mere investigation and discussion of what may be called the facts of the novels--their construction, their action, even their dramatic quality--however painstaking and exact it might be, would...
...only after one has finished the book and has gained something of a comprehension of Dostoevsky's mind and of his almost artless art, that one can wholly understand Mr. Meier-Graefe's opening lines, and why he consistently calls the great novelist a poet
...takes from them one more weapon in their futile battle with the business men who question the worth of college education. Although those worn figures can have no vital part in the individual's appraisement of his own culture, the educated must regret the passing of the only mutually understand dable data with which they could confront such rabid materialists as Roger Herbs...
...When it comes to mathematics, a keen observer could from all idea of the teachers personality and methods of teaching. As for the subject matter, if he were not an adept, he would not understand the first word, and even if he understood, it would be impossible for him to give the readers of the CRIMSON any sort of an idea what it was all about...
...understand it, Mr. Hargreaves suggests that certain persons whom he calls bankers, a very elastic term, should have seats. That is a point which has been debated on and off for a hundred years and so far as I am aware no argument has ever been brought forward to justify...