Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea, proposed last year to Marshall Field Jr., Sun-Times publisher and onetime Adler disciple (in what Adler calls "the Fat Man's class,'' the Great Books course he gives to business executives). Adler's argument was that newspaper readers think: "The American public can understand more than we credit it with...
...people ever to make him speechless: a stunning brunette named Lenore Lafount. Even for parents used to the mysterious fixations of adolescence, George was a caution. He decided that Lenore was the girl he was going to marry; just as he later could not understand why people hesitated to buy Ramblers, he could not understand why she did not jump at his offer...
...than doctors or parents suspected. Even at 2½ she could put on a brave-front part of the time, to hide deep distress. But in 24 hours she was beginning to withdraw from solicitous nurses. Soon she withdrew from her mother, resenting her visits because she could not understand why they had to end. Back home, Laura was markedly anxious and irritable for weeks; six months later, mention of the hospital still revived resentment of mummy's "desertion." (In children who have stayed longer than Laura in the hospital, Analyst Robertson has noted more severe, probably permanent emotional...
...same time, something of a more deeply problematic nature is happening to the western legend. Good and Evil, it seems, are beginning to understand each other, to be reconciled to each other's existence. Often in the modern western a sudden sympathy flashes between hero and villain, as though somehow they feel themselves to be secret sharers in a larger identity. Often the hero cannot bring himself to kill the villain until fate forces his hand, and then he performs the act almost like a religious sacrifice (Shane...
...Harvard economist, author of the currently popular The Affluent Society, and in no sense an apologist for business, takes the line that a large amount of administered pricing is inherent in the modern economic system. Says he: "Those who deplore it are wasting their breath. The problem is to understand it and to live with it." The overlooked truth that Galbraith and others come back to is that businessmen today cannot operate on prices that run up and down like a boiler-room thermometer. They have to have prices stable over a period of time. They make labor contracts that...