Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the "heated" discussion, the delegation insisted that students are smart enough to resist the influence of organizations advocating un-American ways, but should be allowed to hear and understand all political views. The suggestion was accepted as ADA policy after considerable pushing by the HLU delegation, Levine said...
...process of sifting and shifting to find the right combination will continue. It is something only a crew coach can understand, and even he cannot explain it to the outsider. Bolles describes the task as "something you just see, or feel, or smell," but the job is not quite as nebulous as that. It consists of trying all the possible combinations until you hit upon the one that works best, but even when it happens you never know quite why it should be that...
Time to Awake. A less sinister, but equally significant situation was described by Vermont's Senator Ralph E. Flanders as existing in mass-production enterprise, where the worker performs a specific operation, planned by people he does not know, often for reasons he does not understand. He has no direct connection with the finished product, no voice as to how it is to be used. He can make up for this loss of influence only through social and political participation in his community...
...make the war," he told Lisa. "I didn't make the police." Only after Lisa came back, carrying the yellow police card and screaming at him, "Go home! Take your tanks, take your money, take the coffee and the sugar . . . and go home!" did Robert begin to understand that he had debased a human being. He decided to make it up to her by promising to bring 'her to America...
Dean Keppel of the Education School, announcing the appointments, explained that the eventual goal of the new project is to help schools understand the needs, resources, and ideals, of the children placed in their care...