Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moppets chalked up such spontaneous slogans as: "Let's Be Shock Brigadiers in Education and in Work." "Now there is no more persecution, or hatred, or exploitation," said a "typical" Serb; "[but] why is it that your country and mine can't get along?" "What we cannot understand," said another, "is why your Gospodin Wallace . . . does not have the big majority of the American public with...
Until then, the U.S. wanted U.N. to understand a couple of things: it was not questioning the rights of full-time working newsmen, but it had not "yielded up its sovereign rights to challenge the bona fides of any alien journalist*... to investigate, to hold hearings and to deport . . . if the circumstances warrant...
...accuse." One picture in his Berlin show, My Parents, was more than an accusation; it was a memorial portrait of his parents, painted in the Vienna woods, with their backs turned. (They had died in a Nazi concentration camp.) That was a picture which Europeans could best understand...
Koerner now lives in Brooklyn, painting full-time to get ready for his first one-man show in a Manhattan gallery next month. He feels sure that Americans as well as Germans will understand Vanity Fair, which Koerner describes as "the end-product of the things I saw and painted in Germany. It might be called 'Everybody,' because everyone is in it-America too. The picture describes how we all live, separated...
...pains in this vital work, Whitehead was christened a "mystic" by many; but in the light of today his early searching and compelling conclusions stand as heartening indications of the latent capacity of mankind to understand itself...