Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understand there has been great interest in Egyptian language at Harvard," Spalinger said, adding he thought the increasing interest in Egyptology might be due, in part, to the popularity of the King Tutankahamen exhibit...
Kilbridge said the decision to consider other options was not made because the GSD feared legal action. "We can understand why they're upset, and we want to help them," Kilbridge said Monday...
...much meat to this delicate, whimsical little novel about the friendship of two English brothers, but the bones clack together nicely. Peregrine is a precocious child. His younger brother Benedick is thought to be dull, because for several years he speaks in a private language only Peregrine can understand. Their father, a literary scholar and full-rigged eccentric, is never ruffled by his odd progeny; but their mother, a dithered creature who soon fades out of the scene, is confounded. At the age of six, for example, Benedick inquires, "What's a prostitute?" Peregrine knows: "A lady with high...
Some scientists matter-of-factly dismiss the problem of creation. Says Harvey Tananbaum, an X-ray astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory: "That first instant of creation is not relevant as long as we do not have the laws to begin to understand it. It is a question for philosophers and religionists, not for scientists." Adds Geoffrey Burbidge, director of Kitt Peak National Observatory: "Principles and concepts cannot be measured. A question like 'Who imposed the order?' is metaphysical." Still, virtually everyone -both scientists and laymen-is taken by the sheer unthinkable opacity of the creation...
...very important man. His work in literature is essential; he is the most essential man of our times. But his views do not hold good for me. His views about Western countries in my opinion are wrong. I don't think he understands Western societies. Western societies have many possibilities for change by evolution in a positive direction. They are not perfect, but there is no perfect society. It is not conservative, it changes. We know over the last year we have seen much change. Solzhenitsyn thinks it is not a clever society, but he doesn't understand the necessities...