Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Referring to eighty per cent of anti-Dulles State Department mail, Nixon declared that American public opinion, which he termed mis-and ill-informed, can play no part in the formulation of foreign policy. The public, he said, doesn't understand the realities of the situation...
...blitz, Phillips discovered why it was so hard to get the rudiments of Christianity across to the young people of his parish: the King James version of the Bible was a foreign language to them. So he began to translate it himself into the kind of talk they could understand. His first section, the Epistles, so delighted Oxford's C. S. (The Screwtape Letters) Lewis that he wrote an introduction for it and supplied the title: Letters to Young Churches (it sold more than a million copies in the U.S.). Phillips followed it with the rest...
...selling practices. To inspire some smart-selling hustle, many salesmen have been taken off salary and put on straight commission. For the feminine touch, Fohrman Motors (Chrysler) hired saleswomen, because "women influence car buying so much that it is best to cater to their wishes. No man can really understand what it means to get into a modern car wearing a hobble skirt...
...because it is more one-sided. Guerard sees each of the three short novels as a dramatization of the "night journey," a descent into the unconscious to meet one's dark and criminal double--one's Kurtz or Leggat. Obviously, Conrad did not know enough Jung and Fraser to understand the "dramatization," and the core of the interpretation--and of much of the book--is the assumption that Conrad wrote more than he knew. Guerard explains in a footnote...
...that people who have a vivid memory of the horrors of World War II are able to laugh heartily and without uneasiness at this character is a curious phenomenon. If he were obviously a caracature, an unbelievable reductio ad absurdum of certain germanic traits, it would be easier to understand. But Werfel's Colonel, while perhaps exaggerated, is nevertheless real; and the qualities we all find so amusing were terrorizing the world for six years...