Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fairbank argued that Taiwan offered the main opportunity for "trying to understand the Chinese world." The help of a strong Taiwan was, Fairbank urged, necessary to "defend ourselves in the idea-logical cold...
...Like some of the other people who are now retiring voluntarily, within two years I retire whether it's voluntary or not," he ad-libbed to a Manhattan rally of Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon. "So I am interested in good government and I think you can understand that my interest is: For America. There can be nothing else." Same day, before an audience of Republican organization regulars, Ike took a step toward reducing the hot-blooded partisanship that elections inspire. "If we join hands," he said, "regardless of religion and race and geography and any other divisive type...
...wife off-camera, is puzzled by the popularity of what is essentially a corny variety show with some dance-studio trimmings. Says he: "Maybe it's popular because they want a free dance lesson." Hostess Kathryn, at 52, still a petite 98 Ibs., tries a bit harder to understand. "I've a harsh, unattractive voice, but at least it's distinctive," she says. "The cab drivers always spot it. The other day, one of them said to me: 'You don't have talent, you can't sing, you're not a very good...
...library held similar sentiments. Three times a week Professor Greg came in with his green cloth book bag, the kind that had been carried by schoolboys in Boston, and took it away bulging with books. Professor Greg, she knew, was a world-famous scholar, but she couldn't understand why he was not content to rest on his laurels. He had several honorary degrees, and if he lived he probably would get even more. What did he want? He couldn't really hope to learn much more, and certainly there were enough young scholars coming along who should be allowed...
...further deviation of listening to rock 'n' roll and the Voice of America. From such evil habits it was only a step further to hard drinking and absenteeism. Komsomolskaya Pravda quoted with horror a passage from Kostiuk's diary: "I don't understand how one can find any satisfaction in work. Study is also useless." In retrospect, the newspaper blamed the plant collective for failing to apply "corrective measures" in time, and the mothers for narrowing their sons' trousers for them...