Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like many such victims, Cambridge seems only dimly aware of its disease. A handful of social workers, a few academic men, one or two policemen may understand the problem. But the great majority of citizens is either unaware of its existence, or blithely ignores...
Regarding the Dec. 24 article, "A Soul Without Psychology": Dr. Ira Progoff is making the same mistake as Freud, Adler, Jung and Rank have made. He is looking for an absolute truth, through which he can understand the complexities of human personality. Such an absolute probably does not exist; nor is it necessary in the study of psychology. Rather than look for something "nonrational" or spiritual (the soul), Progoff should content himself with rational probabilities. Human personality, although it is something abstract, is affected by a material environment-even in its seemingly spiritual characteristics...
Woman: Is everything clear? Is there anything you don't understand...
Thank you for the cover story on Edward Hopper [Dec. 24]. This is the comprehensive type of article on art that the people understand. Refreshing compared to some of the stuff appearing in the art publications...
...Student Council could play an influential part in University life, but it must understand its part if it is to have its influence. The Council, in our view, should be a group of students who initiate ideas but who do not necessarily represent anyone but themselves. The center of their activities should be reports--reports which deal with the merits or demerits of the lecture system, the growing professionalism of student activities, the dilemmas facing the House system in a time of change, or any of many other questions which the University is facing and upon which the Administration needs...