Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary's office"; 2) agreeing with Chairman Madden that the Universal Pictures case in which Mr. Witt was involved "smelled"; 3) protesting about Mr. Witt "and his amateur detectives"; 4) moving that Mr. Witt be fired; 5) asserting that neither the Secretary nor his assistants could understand the facts of the cases they reported...
...circulation of only 75,178, and such local advertising crumbs as the Journal and the Constitution dropped from their table, rumor said the Georgian had lost around $200,000 a year. Ably edited, it was blighted by a succession of Hearst experts from the North who could not understand the South's temper. Sale of the Georgian leaves Hearst's depleted empire with 17 newspapers, only one (the San Antonio Light) in the South...
...swankest of the arts in 18th-Century London was Italian opera. Periwigged courtiers, who could not understand a word of it, raised their lace cuffs to applaud the ornate trilling of swivel-voiced prima donnas. Fashionable composers like Handel had to write their librettos in Italian. The Caruso of the period was the Italian eunuch-Francesco Bernardi Senesino, whose misfortunate voice earned fabulous sums at London's Royal Academy of Music. Lustier London wits like Henry Fielding began poking fun at this artificial art, inveighed against London's "wanton, affected fondness for foreign musick," with its "squeaking recitatives...
Education, Siepmann feels, should not be defined in a narrow academic sense, but rather as a stimulus to original and critical thought. Programs interpreting current affairs and featuring controversial issues, can lead the populace to understand other points of view than their own and to modify their preconceptions as a result, he says...
...subject matter, which consists primarily of wooded scenes and luxuriant foliage, done in a swiftly executed, impressionistic manner. Sargent represented nature in a style that certainly indicates that he knew what he was seeing; Hopper, however, interprets nature in a way that leads one to believe that he can understand certain things which lie beyond his immediate field of vision. In other words, Hopper is the more intelligent, consequently the better painter...