Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Magnifying a small portion of TIME'S version of Dr. Leo Kanner's report on "Frosted Children" [TIME, April 26], L. B. Martin suggests that through their efforts to achieve a scientific understanding of human behavior, psychologists and psychiatrists must deny the importance of affection and emotional expression in mental health, and that this denial would necessarily be reflected in their own children [TIME, Letters, May 17]. Nothing could be farther from the truth. As clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists try to help their clients understand their emotions, and to learn to express them in normally acceptable ways...
From all over Louisiana loud cries of anguish went up from business and labor. In New Orleans Chep Morrison called an emergency session of the City Commission and complained: "We don't understand why the people of New Orleans should be persecuted...
...told the aroused historians that they could study findings on the spot, remove what they could. They descended like locusts, got in the workmen's way, spent hours and days photographing, sketching, and removing treasures of the past. Said a cigar-chewing truck driver: "I don't understand why these people make such a fuss ... It keeps my truck waiting hours...
...books, always as a devoted friend, with a long-suffering piety and a love of God that Gide sometimes found irritating. Em, as Gid e refers to her, is an off-stage character in the Journals. Critic Georges Lemaitre says of Emmanueéle that "when she came to understand his moral perversity, she shrank from him and 'took refuge in God.'" The Journals prove that she had unusual endurance. She died in 1938. On the last page of his autobiography Gide wrote: "A fatality led me ... It was the marriage of Heaven with my insatiable Hell...
Fragments of Parable. Strewn through the diaries are numerous fragments of stories, beginnings of the books now recognized as profound parables of modern life. Here the reader, observing Kafka's imagination at work, can understand why so many conflicting interpretations have been offered of his writing...