Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Illiterates Are Legion." In the Social Democratic Rebirth Weekly, Writer Tu Jen feared that his countrymen lacked political intelligence: "When I look closely into realities, I feel that the forthcoming elections are but a beautiful dream. . . . Illiterates are legion. . . . Those who understand what democratic government is are indeed very...
Problems of special artistic media, trends in literature and the arts, the process of creative activity, and the range of public communication and understand will hold the spotlight at the conference...
...little progress, but at least in the American zone we have created a sense of freedom in a people unaccustomed to it. There is no fear of arbitrary police action. This is not true in the Soviet zone." A British observer was sarcastic: "Germans in the American zone now understand that, by & large, their first and only duty is to cause no trouble, feed themselves without a riot, and get on with the business of living any way they can. The other term for that is, I suppose, 'the American way of life...
...Trees. The Atlantic gets 40,000 manuscripts a year and the nine-man staff reads them all. (The G.B.S. piece came in "over the transom"-unsolicited.) Associate Editor Charles W. Morton helps Weeks develop new article ideas. They understand each other so well that conferences are as elliptical as shorthand. (Morton to Weeks: "Atomic bomb-Einstein." Weeks to Morton: "I'll call Swing...
...Besides, it was pretty pleasant when I was there, but around December 10 I understand it gets a little cold," Cadbury smiled...