Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pastor of Denver's Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church (membership: 4,300). The church's greatest problem, Moderator Miller told reporters, is reconciliation. "With racial antagonisms, with divorce, juvenile delinquency, and the frantic pace of life these days, the church has a ministry of reconciliation to help people understand each other...
...Illustrator Garth Williams mused on the nonsense of it all. Said he: "The Rabbits' Wedding has no political significance. I was completely unaware that animals with white fur were considered blood relations of white human beings. It was written for children from two to five who will understand it perfectly. It was not written for adults, who will not understand it because it is only about a soft furry love and has no hidden messages of hate...
...with which Mr. Gromyko charges this Western proposal is what I might call the sin of being a package plan . . . All we have done, which indeed complicates the problems, has only one aim: to reply in advance to the Soviet government's objections and allay its fears. We understand perfectly well that reunification of Germany in freedom arouses anxiety in our Russian colleagues . . . [So] we thought it better to attach to German reunification a number of provisions relating to security and disarmament which would be likely to allay these Soviet misgivings...
...winner's purse, dancers wiped out their rivals by slipping them Mickeys or Ex-Lax. Old-timers advised first-timers to don wet stockings (it gave them blisters); women slugged other women cold. Men and women huddled and sometimes made love while wrapped in blankets. "I never did understand the spectators," says June. "They neglected home, children, work. They were drawn to us by the climate of cruelty in the world. Our degradation was entertainment; sadism was sexy; masochism was talent...
Constituents inevitably look for spectacular rather than routine results: extension of Lamont's hours leaves them cold--they want extension of parietal hours; "establishing good relations" with the dining hall administration may be valuable, but students want better food. The problem is that students simply do not understand the Council's role...