Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long way to go. "People," he mused one day last week, "keep coming up to me and saying, 'Oh, you're going for it, aren't you? You're going all the way.' Well, these are people who just don't understand political nuances. This is a very delicate and tricky business, politics...
Convicted of murder, they accepted their fate with an air of bafflement about the white man's justice. In their eyes could be read their failure to understand why they had been arrested. True, they had killed Basuas-but are not the Basuas enemies of the Panamoli? True, they had disguised themselves in crocodile skins-but why not? They ate part of their victims' bodies-but how else could they appropriate the victims' personal qualities...
Yale, unfortunately, hasn't won a game worth winning all year long. You can understand what that's done to Yale's feelings, the way she looks at herself. We learn that the churches in New Haven have been jammed, remorse frothing from a thousand lips. Liquor sales soared as sullen undergraduates sat limp in their smokefilled digs, drowning the memory of a golden thing they once possessed. Need we mention the fourteen spectacular suicides (one symbolically, a sacrifice on the Bowl flag-pole)? Or the dingy homes of carnality in nearby Bridgeport, where scores of undergraduates sought shoddy release...
...confused with elements of the old, and we witness the demonic power of all idolatrous thought. The New Testament conception of the Antichrist--a false messiah of this world pretending to power of the world to come--is here relevant. In the lectures we are attempting to understand our age in terms of New Testament faith. The idea of purposive change, basic to science, derives its moving force from the Christian doctrine of the Kingdom of God. In our days we have a secularization of the Christian eschatology...
...understand all the excitement about increasing the number of tutors in each House," Fair added, "because 24 tutors, for example, can handle a lot of students...