Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...besides, schools like these were themselves selective in choosing their students." Dana M. Cotton, the senior member of the admissions committee with 23 years under his belt, points out that Exeter and Andover are not supplying as many Harvard students as they used to, "which the headmasters there understand but which is difficult to explain to a parent who sent his son to Andover so he could get into the college of his choice...
...class was over and Betty came to talk again, but she said she was in a hurry and by the way she would not be able to go out Saturday night because a friend of hers was coming to stay with her for the weekend. Martin didn't understand why she couldn't get a date for her friend too, but Betty rushed off after promising Martin a date for the weekend after that...
They are going to show a new purpose by having no purpose. They're gonna create a new system of nonsystem. They want to create new rules of no rules. They don't understand their parents' misunderstanding. They reject technology by using the microphone, the car, the roads, maps, electricity, medicines, drugs, booze and prepared foods. They want to be nonproductive on someone's production. Now I understand why I don't understand...
...word was good enough." The debtors still owe the F.D.I.C. but if they cannot pay, Washington will have to absorb the loss. "The bank understood the people," mourns Mayor Bruton, summing up what seems to be the prevailing philosophy of his town. "The inspectors just didn't understand the bank...
With all their faults, wrote French Poet Charles Peguy, God loves the French best. It would be hard to prove Peguy wrong. Still, one wonders whether even the deity can understand his favorites. Witness the recent miscalculation of their mood by Charles de Gaulle, who presumed himself to be modern France incarnate. The challenge of trying to explicate such a capricious, restive and magnificently wrongheaded people is always strong. It has been stimulated lately by what the French discreetly call "the events" of May-June 1968 as well as by the general's abrupt departure...