Word: understand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Father: As a Professor, you may understand, I just said, "the RELAXATION of the conscious mentality,"- to STILL one's self individually, collectively, is the main essential. The human mind can never find the hidden things or the mysteries of GOD. That is the great thought...
...stating that [Hagood] was instructed by me that he was free to answer any question or to make any statement which he might choose, common sense, of course, should have made him understand that political comments and criticisms, never proper in an Army officer, might not freely be made. ... I am strongly of the opinion that disciplinary action is called for. ... A mere reprimand would be no more effective than it has been in the past...
Desire (Paramount). There are two possible reasons why this picture was approved by the Hays organization. The first is that its agents were not sophisticated enough to understand it. The second is that U. S. cinema censors have suddenly become sufficiently enlightened to pass scenes showing a young couple misbehaving together when the picture which includes them has definite esthetic merit. Desire is a romantic comedy of grace, dexterity and charm in which Marlene Dietrich's performance is the best she has given since she became too dignified to exhibit the legs which brought her her first...
...believe in the institutions of our political democracy. We believe that it is important to know and understand the ideas of other systems, and to test ideas of our own system in competition with them. We believe that such a test can be made honestly only by permitting those whose beliefs are different from ours to speak and to write as freely as they choose...
...only in these obvious ways, but in the wrigglings of tiny bacteria, causing dull pain and anger and bad temper and unhappiness in otherwise invincible souls; in the Virus, which none yet understand save as agony and slow, torturous death; in the horrid unfinished minds of morons, lunatics, imbeciles, and idiots, living feebly and bewildered and sometimes in great pain, and also in those great ideals and principles which make it necessary to keep such things in their misery; there also will you find me active...