Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noted Calypso. "Harry--Harry Belafonte--gave it words, I mean he sang it so people could understand the words. And if people can't understand the words, they don't get the story...
...there in the street giving safe-conduct to women and children? Where were all the heaven-hollering preachers? Where were the priests of the "one true Church?" Where were the officers of the Y.M.C.A.? Where were the Boy Scout leaders? As a Southerner, I can understand the social issues. I am tolerant of a normal degree of cowardice. But the cowardice of "the best people" of Little Rock was an unnatural cowardice that ought to be explained...
...Davies fully understood the delicacy of his situation: he kept to himself, left his Sam Peck Hotel room only to walk to the Federal Court Building across the street. Away from his friends and his family (he has two sons, three daughters), friendly, family-minded Ronald Davies began to understand for the first time what New York's famed Judge Harold Medina once said to him: a judge is alone no matter how many people he may have around...
...pure service. The rest must be driven by fear or actuated by hope of gain, as in the United States, which he publicly defends as the ideal of a welfare state that has not sacrificed efficiency or freedom. But Tata is impatient of Americans, feels they do not understand his country's "mixed economy," says: "I wish that sometimes in America points of view were expressed not always in terms of jet black or snow white, that someone did not have to be either Communist or antiCommunist, or wholly a socialist or wholly a capitalist...
...simple peasant wench who works as a maid for a professor and steals books from him. One day, in a fit of conscience, she decides to make good her theft-but while the books she stole were on archaeology, the ones she returns are about law. The girl cannot understand her employer's anger: "They're the same bindings . . . They weigh just the same . . . Five there were, and five there are now." Not all of Author Moravia's works weigh the same; these stories are considerably lighter than the best of his novels (The Fancy Dress Party...