Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the comedy will be presented in the original Greek, Kenneth J. Reckford, instructor in the Classics, who is directing the play, expressed particular concern to make it interesting for those who cannot understand the Greek. Socrates will be portrayed as "a professor at his worst," and The Clouds will be treated as "a take-off on the idea of a University...
...such a decisive role in this complex, it follows that educated men should know something about science. Unfortunately, however, there is a major difference between science and a field such as Comparative Literature--a difference of language. Whereas any intelligent person who has a certain facility with words can understand the weighty sentences of the expert in Comp. Lit., the same is not true in general of science. Indeed, the more advanced branches of physics and chemistry are so tied up with such exotic devices as tensors, spinors, bras, kets, partial differential equations, groups and the like, that any understanding...
...Steche has succeeded in directing his bees to sugar water at various angles from the hive and as far as 1,000 yds. away. In an average half-hour experiment, as many as 150 bees understand his wiggled words and take advantage of them...
...ugly.' Why was he bitter? Because of his life, his failures, his poverty, his obsessive inferiority complex." ¶ Writer Alma Reed: "He had compassion and humanity above all other painters. He was a great mathematician, a great engineer, a great architect." ¶ Painter "Dr. Atl": "Orozco never did understand how to use color." A¶Architect Juan O'Gorman: "José Clemente was incapable of talking rationally or thinking rationally about anything. I often asked him before and after the war why he wore a swastika button in his lapel. He wore it, he told me, because Roosevelt...
...other two are very much alive and have no intention of suing me." Properly Hollyfied at Claimant Golightly's "presumption.'' Capote tongue-lashed back: "I have never met nor seen this lady . . . It's ridiculous for her to claim she is my Holly. I understand she's a large girl nearly 40 years old. Why. it's sort of like Joan Crawford saying she's Lolita...