Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bombing in their outrage at Bourguiba's move. Foreign Minister Christian Pineau announced that France had offered to negotiate withdrawal of her forces from Tunisia, but only if Bourguiba ceased his "pressure and provocation." Declared Pineau grandiloquently: "France intends to defend her interests, and the Tunisian government must understand their sacred character." To offset Bourguiba's U.N. appeal, Pineau lodged a countercomplaint with the Security Council, charging, accurately enough, that Tunisia had permitted Algerian rebels to operate from Tunisian soil. Said Pineau: "We are the accusers...
...master the three Rs than to satisfy his "real life" and/or "felt needs." In a new book called Translations from the English (Simon & Schuster; $1.95), Robert Paul Smith, author of the bestselling "Where Did You Go?" "Out." "What Did You Do?" "Nothing.", takes up the problem of how to understand teachers and "other more or less English-speaking people." Among his translations...
...Orphéon, and Ou va-t-on se nicher?, she brought down the house and moved the sprightly critical review Arts to lyrical flights: "She has lovely broad shoulders and fine big arms, well made for singing of love, joy and sadness. We can understand how her body could have inspired painters. She brings with her the lights of springtime and winter, sun and rain...
...Institution agreed to schedule and route the exhibit, museums in Kansas City, Detroit, New York, Toronto, Dallas and Los Angeles signed up. But several museums politely turned down the show, and the argument was on. Said Pittsburgh's assistant director of the Carnegie Institute, Leon A. Arkus: "I understand Mr. Churchill is a terrific bricklayer too, but nobody is exhibiting bricks this season." Cincinnati Art Museum Director Philip R. Adams added: "Such exhibits throw off the whole public approach to art. This is 'Churchill art,' not just art. We have to defend art itself. Our interest...
...care about her interests. I want her!" And still more incredulously he assists at a preposterous charade: he helps Pyle to propose to the girl he is sickeningly sure he cannot live without. "He wants to make you happy," he wearily translates, "and secure your future." Alas, Phuong cannot understand what Pyle means by "future," but she understands very well what he means by marriage, and she longs to see the Empire State Building. So when it becomes clear that Fowler cannot get a divorce, she goes to live with Pyle...