Word: understand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personal hang-up about it. My parents were eating spaghetti in Italy, remember." Procaccino, when asked last week if he agreed with the commission's racism argument, replied: "Absolutely not, although I realize that there have been instances of discrimination. We have to have someone in office who can understand what it is like to be discriminated against." What this attitude ignores, of course, is that blacks face handicaps not suffered by earlier underclass groups. Further, as long as they remain submerged, most of the city's problems will be insoluble...
...kids cut him off: "C'mon, George, get with it." It was the first time a Redlands student had ever called him George. He was still up at 4 a.m., banging away on his portable typewriter, setting down his reaction to the experience. He didn't quite understand his new college, but it was making him think. Whether his new students will think as deeply as they feel remains to be seen. It should be quite a year...
...balanced and pleasing arrangement is a true test of ingenuity and self-control. Says one new planetarian: "I couldn't stop. I worked until dawn and got so irritated I nearly screamed. Vasarely's paintings always looked like child's play to me. Now I understand all the long years of work behind them...
...characters. To have a boy love pigeons and dream of the old golden fields of West Virginia is a filmmaker's cliche of true human value. Wexler is clearly less at home with people than with the news events, himself. With this in mind, it's easy to understand why he arbitrarily ended the story of his characters with violence, and then turned the camera on his own movie crew before...
...elementary and short-lived among people like us. They knew about Louise Day Hicks, so we talked about that for 15 seconds. Then they wanted to know if our jocks were politicos. I really wanted to pay attention to the show rather than talk, but they couldn't understand such enthusiasm about a band. So I told him some of the jocks were interested in politics, which I think is true. As does everyone else, they asked if there had been any action here. "A little." And then they said they figured that out in Worcester they were about...