Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short-term resident of Britain, I heartily endorse your sympathetic evaluation of Aneurin Bevan and his part in the socialization of Britain [TIME, March 21]. Thank you for your help in enabling Americans . . . to understand the comparatively quiet but nonetheless gigantic revolution in one of the world's greatest nations...
...distribution is one of the fundamental, though unrecognized, differences between the proponents and opponents of compulsory health insurance. The social reformers see only the inequalities and the poor distribution in the present system, but ignore the question of quality, and in fact do not have the necessary training to understand what quality medical care really means. The doctors, on the other hand, are primarily interested in quality, and are extremely cognizant of this aspect of medicine, while they have ignored the maldistribution of the present system until forced into action by those outside the profession. If both sides can only...
...Communist Party had been around the U.S. for 30 years, yet the Federal Government had never before tried to prosecute it for conspiracy. It was nonsense to say that communism's "scientific socialism" ("Much easier to understand than relativity," he declared) taught the violent overthrow of the U.S. The party, which numbered 70,000 members, merely practiced "the real principles of Marxism-Leninism...
...wanted to cry: 'But I loved your country! I wanted to write, to explain it to the world!' The words froze. He wouldn't permit them, nor would he understand them." The commissar rose to pronounce judgment: Journalist Strong was to be expelled for spying. "I tried once more to protest that I wasn't a spy ... He said, 'Dismissed,' very curtly, and I went...
...have an educated nose. But I don't confuse myself and my friends and the art critics with the millions. I myself have always wanted to paint for the millions-and so I stick to my idea of a clear, firm, simple and precise art that everyone can understand...