Word: understand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understand it," says Wilson, "the President said, 'there are these cases in which there are derogatory implications. What Faculty group should speak on them?' "Wilson contends that Pusey consulted the Committee of 15 and some Faculty members from both caucuses before he re-submitted the names to the departments. "It wasn't Pusey's decision," says Wilson. "it was the Faculty's decision...
...thanks to American imperialism in Vietnam, the French student movement was given a real blood and guts issue which everybody could understand and students once again swarmed into the streets...
Rosencrantz and Guilderstern play games and tell jokes to survive. They feel that their surroundings are beyond understanding. They cannot revolt against it all: they are going to die anyway Why bother to understand...
...teach better, reduce conflicts, and organize our efforts better. Our economy will run better if we can train our manpower better, solve industrial disputes, and improve the efficiency of large organizations. We can reduce the chances of war if we can learn more about foreign peoples, relax tensions, understand the nature of conflict, and build better international organizations. Our national defense stands in need of the same kind of knowledge; for in it too one needs to train people, resolve issues, run large organizations...
...ignorant; the more knowledge that men have about each other, the more moral their conduct will become. "The day of literature, philosophy, etc., is not over," Professor Pool remarked not long ago. "They have their value. But there are a great many things that we have learned to understand better through psychology, sociology, systems analysis, political science. Such knowledge is important to the mandarins of the future for it is by such knowledge that men of power are humanized and civilized. They need a way of perceiving the consequences of what they do if their actions...