Word: understand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mirko does not preconceive an object. "I try to be free and to catch what is the essence." From the nucleus of an idea he enters into a dialogue-- a dialogue of eyes and hands and shape and what might be called soul. "I first try to understand, then to make contact [with the work], like you first meet and later make contact with a person...
Alice said she is never upset by the band's occasionally off-color antics. "There was a time when they apologized any time somebody said 'damn,' but they ignore me now. Half the things I don't understand, and a lot of the things that I do understand I just don't hear any more. Like the show at the Princeton game this year--I didn't understand that, and anybody who did had a dirty mind...
Alice stayed away from the interviews. "I was dying to see the applicants, but that autonomous band structure was hard enough to understand. A band mother would have killed the enthusiasm." Alice thinks it took the new conductor, James Walker, several months to get used to her, but he liked the band and its mom enough that he has remained at Harvard for eight years...
...sophomore football season, Brian was already being compared to Frank Merriwell, Yale's mythical super-athlete. Dowling shunned the role. "I had never heard of Merriwell until I got here and I still haven't read any of the books about him," Brian said. "But, from what I understand, Frank Merriwell was quite...
...really don't understand how you Harvard guys think you can win," challenges one modest fellow. "Have you watched Dowling play this season? Nobody stops...