Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rarely cried and never had tantrums-that her doctors and parents had no qualms when she was admitted to London's Tavistock Clinic to have an umbilical hernia repaired. Her mother could visit Laura every day, and she would be home in a week. She seemed to understand all this when mummy and daddy explained it. She was even allowed to take her favorite soft toy, unsanitary though it was. Surgery went well, and to doctors and nurses Laura seemed fine. Even her anxious mother thought her occasional crying and distress were normal and unavoidable...
Professor Williams is right. Even at the best colleges, learning evokes little student excitement; few undergraduates understand the ideological foundations of Western Civilization; few find purpose or direction. Williams maintains that American colleges have not changed their attitudes or methods in at least the last forty years, even though the world has experienced drastic changes. He justifiably asks: "If Nero became infamous for fiddling while Rome burned, what will be the future reputation of the modern college professor...
...example, he pointed to the French Revolution. "Historians may attribute the Revolution to the influence of the Philosophes," he said, "but to understand this influence at all, it is necessary to look closely at the figures in the Scientific Revolution...
...critic who makes judging a matter of principle-who keeps criticizing instead of trying to understand-is rather like a man with a cane, alone in a garden, decapitating weeds and flowers alike. Anything that has size or mystery about it stands in danger...
...stores in the Square were willing to sell them ("a public service" they called it) and it just snow-balled. Last year it was in the list of top ten L.P.'s in England for a while, and now it's getting started in Australia, I understand. I don't expect it to get much further since its appeal is limited to an English-speaking audience...