Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Tuesday morning, in the weary tones of a tired preacher who knows his text by heart. The Norris-LaGuardia Act, he said, barred such injunctions as the court had issued; and-looking straight at the judge -the act was written "in plain language which any intelligent citizen can understand...
...Eleanor Roosevelt, noting that German Pastor Martin Niemoller had arrived in the U.S. on a lecture tour (see RELIGION), promptly piped: "I understand that Dr. Niemoller . . . was against the Nazis because of what they did to the church, but that he had no quarrel with them politically. ... I cannot quite see why we should be asked to listen to his lectures." Blurted the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, sponsor of Pastor NiemÖller's tour: "The record clearly shows that he repeatedly spoke against political aims of the Nazis as early...
...strict University censorship and the lack of experienced burlesque comedianship on the part of its actors. For "Rule A Wife And Have A Wife" is not great art--it is vulgar funny stuff which should be played (if it is not to be embarrassing) by those who instinctively understand it best--Mike Sachs, Bert Lahr, and Bobby Clark...
...familiar and awesome mushrooming spray, Abstractionist Crawford explained that he had painted what he felt, not what he saw. His paintings, he added, were "a comment on the negative and positive expressions of contemporary society, with an emphasis on the negative. . . . Definitely most people won't understand. . . . They approach pictures-not only my own but all works of art-with the mistaken idea that they can understand them after looking at them briefly. Yet these same people would expect to spend several hours on a work of art like a novel...
Brailowsky's Chopin is more restrained but also more mannered than the gusty performances of his late, great friend Sergei Rachmaninoff. Brailowsky likes to think that he plays with the igth Century delicacy Chopin himself used. Says he: "The Polish and the Russian, we understand each other." But Chopin is not Brailowsky's favorite composer; Beethoven and Mozart come first. A typical Brailowsky concert runs from Bach or Scarlatti to Prokofiev-but always includes some Chopin. In Buenos Aires he played 17 recitals in eight weeks without repeating any work...