Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of armchair planners without any real notion of the needs. It has resisted change for more than a century. It is meeting certain needs and meeting them well." Dr. Hindman's solution: let Skid Row stand. "Before we do any tampering, we ought to understand what the needs are that Skid Row is filling, and then determine if we can meet those needs in a better...
...Poland and Russia, he proclaimed, "changes are taking place which if they are permitted to work themselves out will bring these nations into line with what we call the free people of the world." The Americans, he said, are "so blind that they do not understand that it is impossible to starve a modern revolution into surrender or submission. What I would say to my American friends is this - if you are incensed by what you consider to be some of the more repugnant features of the Chinese or Russian regimes, the best thing to do with those nations...
Also, the fact that the science concentrator is extremely involved with intricate technicalities and problems of his field suggests that he might well profit from the broadening effects of a course in the philosophy and history of science. Since to understand fully the implications of scientific theories one must be at a rather advanced level, it is logical that such a course in history and philosophy should not be undertaken until at least the junior year...
...statistics, too. You can look it up. It may be our fault they're that way. Maybe the whites should feel responsible. I don't say we're not. I guess most of the trouble is that they're all so poor you folks up here couldn't understand it, and they've always been poor, and they don't ever expect to be anything but poor. If they don't like it, they can go North, where there's lots of money and everybody loves'em. A lot go. A lot come back...
...gave her a look of triumph, gulped his coffee, and then added more soberly, "But you wouldn't understand. You've never lived down there, and you've never known a nigger the way we know 'em." He rose, held her coat for her, and followed her out into the rain...