Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have read with interest your article on Avery Dulles [June 11] and have been enlightened in some respects, if not in others. As I understand it, the Legion of Decency is trying not only to protect its own interests, but that of all the American people. Perhaps they would like to have absolute control of business so that our minds may not be poisoned by films, books, or any other medium of communication that is not in sympathy with the Catholic clergy's ideas...
...zone. The upshot: at the end of the seventh inning of the big Democratic delegate contest, Harriman still trailed Front Runner Adlai Stevenson, 3-1. Nothing Harriman tried at the conference quite seemed to work. When he tried to switch-hit on the civil-rights issue ("I know and understand the South"), North Carolina's Stevenson-supporting Governor Luther Hodges threw him a fast-breaking curve. Harriman, said Hodges, had no chance to carry the South because of his "Tammany Hall and A.D.A. connections." The situation called for a sacrifice, and as they had done before...
After he was divorced, Eero Saarinen and the author of those understanding lines (herself a divorcee) were married. He told his new wife frankly: "I think you will be able to be married to me, because you understand that my first love is architecture." Since then, Eero has kept the romance boiling with surprise "I love you'' notes Scotch-taped on the walls. They named their son, now 19 months, Eames, for Eero's old designer buddy, Charles Eames...
They are almost entirely Roman Catholic but not quite the kind U.S. Catholics understand. Accustomed to receiving the sacraments only when a priest visits the village, sometimes baptizing their children themselves and often marrying without benefit of clergy,* Puerto Ricans have scandalized many a priest with their casual church ways. But gradually the church has found its way among the burgeoning Puerto Rican flock. The zesty mixture of fun and devotions last week in Manhattan and Chicago was testimony to the church's success...
...George Fox, who tried to institutionalize it in the Quaker movement, whose members were to be guided by an "inner light." It came to Nijinsky as he made the final entry in his diary: "My little girl is singing: 'Ah ah ah ah.' I do not understand its meaning, but I feel what she wants to say. She wants to say that everything . . . is not horror, but joy." This brings Wilson close, as he acknowledges, to Nietzsche's Superman, the man who can say: I accept everything. As for Nietzsche, Wilson likens...