Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emotions and sensitivity do have a legitimate role in scholarly activity; and that, in any intellectual conversation, whether with writings or with other people, kindness can only lend depth and humanity. The gap in time and traditions, the obstructions to communication can be over-come by the desire to understand. The ability to be convinced depends in great measure on warm and generous feelings toward other ideas and aspirations...
...politics. South Africa-born, Cambridge-educated Abba Eban will presumably be groomed to replace ailing Golda Meir (formerly of Milwaukee) as Foreign Minister. First he must get in touch with domestic problems, and learn to leaven his meticulous classical Hebrew with the kind of everyday Hebrew that contemporary Israelis understand...
...Zuazo, whose ambassador in Peru, getting the magazine a day earlier, had alerted him. Siles made the story the topic of a six-hour Cabinet session, then issued a statement blasting the remark as "damaging to the national honor" and "absolutely inadmissable." The statement gave the Bolivian public to understand that the remark had been put forth as a serious proposal...
...Night Attack. In August 1914 Paul Tillich was a 28-year-old Lutheran minister in Berlin. The intellectual life seemed the way to truth. "It still seemed possible then to sit in the center of the world and be able to understand everything." But with the outbreak of World War I, the world exploded...
...story of a child who witnesses a crime and cannot make the adult world understand has been written before, but rarely so well. Devil by the Sea is the season's most chilling tale, and British Novelist Bawden tells it with the devil's own gift of gab and style. She can charm as well as chill. The innocent childhood scenes she sets down, in contrast to the mounting horror in the background, are as engaging as any of the beach idyls sketched by Lewis Carroll...