Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope, too, that we will find a way to create an atmosphere of genuine bipartisanship in which our foreign policy can be supported by all citizens. For it is necessary that those who are trying to destroy the free world clearly understand that we will unanimously support the man who takes the leadership-and that man necessarily will have to be the President of the United States...
...will tell you, for I know. There are no men who think symbolically. There are no artists who understand the myth. These are no times to sing of the Abstract and the investigating subcommittee...
...counseled the children as they spoke, one heart to another. I understand the idiot's smile. I sing of the simple savage...
...with the missions? They must be perking, if all the lower grades are as busy in their behalf as ours. There are penny parades, raffles, candy and cooky sales, statues and holy cards and rosaries to buy: you name it, Sister thought of it last week. (As I understand the parade, the children march around the room, dropping pennies in the mission bank until they run out of funds, the object being, of course, to stay on their feet.) For the upper grades, the approach is more subtle. You forgot your tie? Put a quarter in the bank or stay...
...Sister why there couldn't be more of it (hardhearted mother!), she explained that hers is a split class: two grades in one room. She teaches one class in the morning and assigns 'homework' for the afternoon, when she teaches the other class. If I understand the procedure, some of our children actually attend school for one-half of the day . . . No wonder we often sense a lack of discipline when the children report the day's activities...