Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about-face, proclaimed first a cease-fire and then its present senseless policy of shelling Quemoy only on alternate days, as if to show that if Red China could not take the islands, it could kill innocent people on them at will. "Some Communists may not yet understand this," conceded a government directive which Western experts thought bore the markings of having been written by Mao himself. But, added the directive. "You will understand after a while, comrades...
...make sure the comrades did understand. China's propaganda mills last week ground out a selected anthology of Mao's speeches and writings over the past 18 years entitled, "Imperialists and All Reactionaries Are Paper Tigers." Its gist: U.S. military superiority over Red China will ultimately prove as transient as did that of the Japanese and the Nationalist Chinese...
...Togetherness-began to come apart. Up to the desk of McCall Corp. President Arthur B. Langlie stalked Editor-Publisher Otis Lee Wiese with a one-sentence resignation. Ten minutes later, Advertising Director Bill Carr (like Wiese, a McCall board member and vice president) was in with his: "I understand that Otis Wiese is no longer with the McCall Corp. . . . This eliminates the last hope I've had for professional management in the company...
...Disease Alone. Despite the ingenuity of their retrospective diagnosis, the Butterfields are far from wanting to debunk Saint Joan. "Though we may understand the reason for her visions," they conclude, "we should be making a great mistake if we attributed Joan's greatness to organic disease alone . . . It is not her visions and voices, but her courage, her intelligence, her ability to get big things done, and her struggle for the independence of her mind which distinguish Joan and place her among the great women...
...needed to show him up all the way. The catalytic agent that calls his variety of weaknesses into play is an affair with Ramie, an adolescent Arab girl who becomes Auligny's obsession. Loving her, he begins to think that he loves the Arabs and wants to understand them. Yet all the time he really only uses Ramie to fill an emotional vacuum, just as she is simply using him to get money. Montherlant finished Desert Love (part of a longer novel) in 1932, made only minor additions for this version. The book does not show...