Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alfred Kazin's review of Breakfast at Tiffany's in the Reporter: "I liked it. Except I didn't understand the last two lines. What does he mean by 'public vice or private tears'? I don't know what that means...
TIME'S reporters and writers strive mightily, within the framework of their U.S. upbringing, to understand and report accurately on the newsmaking Latin Americans. This week, for an exhaustively reported story on a major Latin American country and its new President, illustrated with eight pages of color photographs, see THE HEMISPHERE, The Paycheck Revolution...
...could handle it now. If you fail to see what we need, you will lose a fantastic opportunity and may be regret it bitterly later on." Iran risked Soviet anger to sign a defense agreement with the U.S., and the Shah, like most of his countrymen, cannot understand John Foster Dulles' explanations that it must be an "agreement" not a treaty...
...also turned out dozens of show albums for the major record companies. In addition, he has built a fine reputation as an interpreter of baroque music, which he claims to understand intuitively because of his experience in "living theater." Currently, he is planning an operetta based on Chekhov's The Boor, recording albums of Broadway overtures (for Columbia), Broadway ballets (for RCA Victor), writing an autobiographical survey of the U.S. musical scene. His breathless commuting between composing and conducting, Broadway and highbrow, has earned him, in some quarters, the affectionate handle of "the Poor Man's Lenny Bernstein...
Your editoral (sic) of December 2, 1958 has aroused so much excitement that you have been named the A......of the year. After reading this article, I can understand why you were ashamed to sign your name to it. I also wonder if you really think friends are made eating lunch or dinner with your roommates...