Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, Barzun warns, those who continue to grumble at America are merely singing a worn-out tune. "They forget that the true creator's role, even in its bitterest attack, is to make us understand or endure life better. Our intellectuals do neither when they entice us to more self-contempt...
...Japan. Amidst a profusion of potent Japanese beer, sake, bourbon, Scotch and all manner of native dishes, they saw Fujiyama mantled in unseasonable snow, famed shrines and spas, one geisha dance so laden with obscure symbolism that Host Osawa told his mystified buddies: "If you can understand either it or the program notes, you're a better Japanese than I am!" At the Nagoya railroad station, the Princetonians were greeted by employees of Seaweed's big Osawa Trading Co. They waved a streamer proclaiming: "Welcome Princeton, Orange and Black Brothers...
...next fall, we nonetheless ask the CRIMSON, relying on its "realistic" regularity of appearance, as well as (we feel) its "courage," to publish our acceptance of Mr. Raditsa's challenge, and our denial of the blatant misrepresentation of fact and irresponsible purveying of slander. (Yes, we say, irresponsible; we understand the "clubbie" who is "out to get Raditsa," and expect the reaction of an Eliot House tutor: "Poor Leo. I wonder what we did wrong.") Perhaps, Mr. Raditsa asks for this reaction in his introduction (as much as any individual can); we say that it is irrelevant, that the book...
...last contribution to this Advocate is Ann Rand's review of Henry Miller's The Time of the Assassins. While no one will dispute her assertion that Miller's work "is not literary criticism as we usually understand it," she scarcely goes beyond it. Like most of the contributors to the issue, she seems, to lack, if not the capacity, the desire to say something. Since they do make the effort, the stories by Medeiros, Wolfert, and Miss Dawson are particularly welcome...
...Philadelphia fans have learned to appreciate him, and now they understand what his opponents mean when they call Righthander Roberts an old-fashioned pitcher. He never bothers with fancy stuff but makes do with what he has: a dinky curve, a sneaky but unspectacular fast ball, and a frustrating change of pace. He offers no single dramatic talent-he has no counterpart of Carl Hubbell's spectacular screwball, Walter Johnson's terrifying fast ball, Bobby Feller's strikeout touch. Pitch for pitch, many of his contemporaries have what the trade calls "more stuff," pitches that are harder...