Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was no discussion of any pacts or commitments, but each acknowledged that they had come to understand the other better and that the ultimate link between the two countries is a dedication to world peace...
...find it difficult to understand why Harry Byrd and many other Virginians don't take more pride in their Negro citizens and the progress they have made. I have seen other Southern states, where most of the Negroes seemed dirty and devoid of all social graces, but in Virginia, where I once lived, the average Negro pretty well matched the typical middle-class person anywhere. They are a credit to their state and certainly are not objectionable as fellow students for anyone else's children...
...stoops to slavish copying. Hopper seldom sketches on the spot; he has not painted an oil direct from nature in 15 years. What he shares with the other great realists in American painting history is a heartfelt regard for the here and now, together with an overmastering desire to understand it intimately and express it clearly...
...Greco. Toledo was an ideal city. Saint Theresa and St. John of the Cross were fellow citizens, and their visions made the miraculous an everyday occurrence. In such a time, Toledo found it easy to understand El Greco's inner vision, which triumphed over perspective and proportion to create his own soaring, flamelike dimensions of beauty and power...
Heschel spoke on "The Intellectual View of Our Religious Convictions," and asserted that "we must respond to the mystery of living with a sense of awe before we can intellectually understand the existence of God." He described faith as the response to the "mystery of existence...