Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt replied: "There is a definite place in American life-an important place-for broad, liberal and nonspecialized education. . . . The noble list of those who have gone out into life from the halls of William & Mary is in greater part distinguished because these graduates came to know and to understand the needs of their nation as a whole...
...name will be associated in the annals of history with that impersonal and brutal engine of destruction which disrupted the entire world. Unfortunately there are others to take his place, others eager to defend their nation's honor, ready to make the supreme sacrifice for a cause they neither understand or care about. The myth of patriotism still supplies cannon with their fodder and armies with their generals. Will it always be thus? Alas, yes, until men begin to ask why they are fighting and refuse to give way to an indefinite emotional sentiment instilled in them...
...difficult to understand the attitude of the Princeton authorities, an attitude meriting no other name than intolerance. The custom of forced attendance at church is a gross anachronism. More significant, it is a serious impediment to the cause of religion, struggling mightily to adapt itself to a changing world. To attempt to stimulate religious belief by cramming it down a man's throat is folly. The normal individual not only resents such a practice, but will have a lifelong prejudice against the food of which he partakes so grudgingly...
...Belgium. His greatest service to his country occurred when he became the father of a pale and proper little girl who grew up to be Victoria, Queen of England, Empress of India, Defender of the Faith. Last week King George quickly let the new Duke of Kent understand that he must work for his title. Hardly had the great-great-grandson of the last Duke opened the motor show than it was announced that George of Kent and not Edward of Wales will represent the United Kingdom at the state funeral of murdered Alexander of Jugoslavia...
...town to town, settles many a backstage dispute, writes occasional reviews for British papers (New Statesman, New English Weekly, Manchester Guardian) and turns up persistently at rehearsals and performances in an overcoat several inches too long. Author Haskell identifies himself as a life-long balletomaniac who studied dancing to understand its difficulties. He quarreled with Diaghilev over his last ballets and Diaghilev never forgave him. He describes Diaghilev's weaknesses: his sexual abnormalities, his greed for sweets, his crazy superstitions, his countless inconsistencies. But in the Machiavellian persecutor which Madame Nijinsky portrays Critic Haskell takes no stock. An incompetent...