Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very marrow of one's bones and take possession of one's whole being; Shakespeare here reaches in us the three states he has plumbed so deeply in his characters: the conscious, the sub-conscious, and the unconscious. The last two are states that we today really understand little better than do the characters in the play; the people in Macbeth are constantly baffled (what other play contains such a large proportion of questions?), and so are we. Much of the fantastic effect of Macbeth is due to the uncanny atmosphere of fear the Bard created--and this...
...organization of peasants' labor, the best form of organization of production. But one must not drive a man to a better life with a whip or, as the saying goes, drive someone into paradise with a stick . . . People have to grow up to cooperatives so that they understand the necessity for joining them...
...TIME, Nov. 28, 1955) asked whether artists should not "communicate spiritual truth," and replied with an emphatic yes. Now Rodman is deep in a new book, The Insiders, which asks whether artists should not paint what they feel in a recognizable fashion for all to understand. Again he gives the unfashionable answer...
...care how much it costs; I'm going to beat the rap. I'm ready to go back to the U.S. and face trial. I've got nothing to worry about. It's just a complicated business problem. People just don't understand anything about high finance...
...Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 12:30-1 p.m.). Military Historian Walter Millis riffles through old pictures and eyewitness drawings in an effort to help a new generation understand what Grandpa meant when he shouted: "Remember the Maine and to Hell with Spain." The Ed Sullivan Show...