Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mixture of Emersonian transcendentalism, Indian mysticism and garden-variety lust, intimatism is concerned with the harmony of the individual. It holds that man alone cannot find harmony; he requires woman. Says Sébille: the only way for men & women to understand themselves better is "to love each other more." "Two by two we will vanquish egotism, cowardice, jealousy and solitude...
...tried to teach. But presumably she will run afoul of a new Polish law to test the party-line faithfulness of its teachers. Says Anne, who hopes she will be allowed another year on the job: "If I succeed in having even 20 Poles speak English well and understand about America, then I'll have done a good job for the first time in my life...
...nubbin of this situation is really easy to understand if we approach it from a different slant...
...only be democratic, it must be education. It does not follow that because the Common Man has been lifted into control, that he is automatically made competent to exert control. When the Common Man was thus suddenly liberated, what he needed . . . was such education as would enable him to understand what hitherto only the controlling few had been encouraged to try to understand, the nobler and wiser aims of the race, those visions which dictate the ethical foundations of a sound society...
Rousseau: "A Chicken would obey your orders if you could make them intelligible to it. But a cat will understand you perfectly, and not obey them...