Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know what the hell you think about this Marshall plan," the station agent said, "but I don't understand it, and by God I don't think you understand...
...claim to understand all about it," Bridges said...
...surely the most appropriate offerings to God." Art as an aid to devotion seems to him quite secondary: "I don't believe in providing worshipers with emotional titillations. I think it's a very unhealthy idea. But it's true that, as they have grown to understand them, many of the congregation have found the Moore and Sutherland works very comforting and inspiring...
...measure of fame with a London show in 1911, but the cheers came mostly from Whistler's enemies, who took revenge by insisting that Greaves was really the original and Whistler the imitator. Not all the tributes stemmed from spite. Wrote Sickert: "Whistler gave me to understand that the Greaves boys were negligible. ... I herewith make public penitence . . . Walter Greaves is a great master...
...People don't understand that it's possible to believe in a thing and ridicule it at the same time," says Auden. "It's hard for them, too, to see that a poem's statement of belief is no proof of belief, any more than a love poem is a proof that one is in love...