Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Butler, though he has established a useful position for the future, is still in no position to challenge Eden for the leadership, knows that he would lose if he did. Said one Conservative old hand: "You must understand how strong is the spirit of unity among Conservative leaders. We remember how much damage has been done by splits in our leadership-Fox and Pitt, Peel and Disraeli. The only reasonable way for Butler to express such differences as he may have with Eden is within the party, within the government. That way, he may have some influence and only that...
...their criticisms. K. Roald Bergethon, dean of the college, explained that he called up two or three boys last year for various reasons, but "not primarily because they wrote a critical letter." He said he was mainly interested in finding out exactly what the complaint was so he could understand it better. Labovitz agreed that Bergethon seemed sincerely interested in solving problems, but he criticized the other deans for "rapping him (Labovitz) on the knuckles." At any rate, a dean would have to be somewhat naive not to realize that any call to his office is apt to be intimidating...
...resignation becomes effective: he has always loved to teach and been concerned with undergraduates, who regard him as their best friend in the Department. Yet when Shapley first offered him an Observatory fellowship at a meeting in Leyden, Bok thought Harvard was just an observatory, and did not understand that it was also a university. Yet later he was to become critical of his Department and at one point say, "a university that does not exist for teaching has lost direction...
...colleges may become the new art center of the country said Ben Shahn, the Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer last night, if they learn to accept and understand creativity and creators. Speaking before a capacity audience in New Lecture Hall, artist Shahn explained in his talk on "Artists in Colleges" why it would be of advantage to both the artist and the academy to get together...
...most conspicuous example of this false and American idealism is in Giant's handling of the segregation issue, through the somewhat less flagrant problem of Texan prejudice against Mexican-Americans. The movie does depict the trend in Mexican-Texan relations correctly--only the old settlers do not understand the "messican;" the new generation accepts and even encourages him. But as usual, Hollywood has oversimplified, exaggerating the problem in order to come up with a strikingly optimistic conclusion. No Mexican-American would ever be ejected from any restaurant as in the movie. On the other hand, no son of a Benedict...