Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conceived in the mind of man." He is personally going to investigate the "Italian Siberia." He will go to these penal islands. Mrs. Jackson Flemming, the popular current history lecturer, said in my drawing-room: "The government Mussolini is developing is so modern we Americans are not able to understand it; we are not educated up to it." Both these statements are significant...
...spite of this self-satisfied air among the Jews of America there is no lack of Jewish problems in America. Above all there is the problem of assimilation which is making big strides. The younger generation does not understand Yiddish...
...Hovey, of course, believes socialism and anarchy the same. He does not understand that the interest of college professors, such as the eminent authorities on jurispudence of the Harvard Law School, in this famous case centers upon a legal and not a political point. Nor can this be laid to the fact that he is a stock broker, a Bostonian. One of the most pleasing of modern phenomena is that of the interest which business men, college professors, men from all the categories of current existence, have taken in the finer points of this attempt to probe the Sacco-Vanzetti...
Following this line of suggestion, it is not difficult to understand the secret of Beethoven's appeal for an acquaintance with his works will corroborate the statement that Beethoven is first, an emotional composer, second, an artist of great dramatic power; and third, a man of fascinating humor, whose works have their being to intensify those never changing qualities in man--his basic emotions, love, joy, sorrow, his craving for the dramatic, for something to happen, and his instinct for what is humorous--for the incongruities and variety in the spectacle of life...
Then things began to go badly for him. Dagny Kielland was unable to find in Nagel any of the well rubbed familiar surfaces, common to all men, by which people are accustomed to identify, if not to understand, other people. He remained a mystery to her. Nagel realized that it was impossible for her to penetrate the dark secrets of his mind. With the teeth of despair already in his heart, he began to see madness waddling toward him like an enormous lizard. "Then he made for the harbor at a run, the back of his waistcoat showing white...