Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This man (who is not George Marshall) was asked whether a firm stand against Russia might provoke renewed charges of "Western aggressive designs." He replied: "It won't change a damned thing. They are saying that anyhow. But it would help us to make people understand that we have to gather all our strength and resources for whatever is in store for us. Otherwise the Russians will continue to thrive on division. There is no country in the world where they have not attempted to exploit for their own benefit any political or economic confusion...
...dynamic, Limón spent 2½ years in the Army (he got out in 1945) but lost none of his technique there. He believes in clarity of line and clarity of story in dancing, is one of the few modern dancers a non-aficionado audience can watch and understand through a whole program-Classical ballet, he thinks, is unAmerican. Says he: "The ballet is such a sophisticated vocabulary. It's perfect for the experiences of lords and ladies, princesses and fairies and other imaginary characters. But those of us who want to talk about our own environment here...
...large measure need acting on. Their big, blunt theme is that the world's universities are "strongholds of nationalism," that, "so long as this is true, universities actually can unwittingly promote war," and that "they should have one responsibility above all-to take the lead in helping nations to understand each other, and in training young men to think in terms of one world, not one country." While this may seem a strange and arbitrary formulation of the purpose of a university, the carrying through of one recommendation, among the several made is for Harvard practicable and imperative: the College...
President Conant went on to tell the group, "We need to dignify the two-year (terminal college) course as a combination of vocational and general education. But to do so we need to understand the university tradition...
Whined a flower girl on the steps of lamplit St. Paul's Cathedral: "All my flowers shriveled up, and the buds go brown with frost. Politics, I don't understand 'em. It's warmth I want...