Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What, if anything, happens after that the audience was hard put to understand. In Act I, labeled "Avila: Saint Therese half indoors and half out of doors," Saint Therese holds the stage, permits herself to be photographed with an old-fashioned camera covered with black cloth. Other saints bombard her with questions. Finally when the chorus solemnly asks her: "If it were possible to kill 5,000 Chinamen by pressing a button would it be done?" an end man replies for her: "Saint Therese not interested...
...their cultural veneer, gape dumbly at the exhibit there now on display. So foreign to them is a spirit better constituted to create than to jape, to judge, not jape, to direct, not to drift, to lead, not to lag, that they apprehend only their own failure to understand the inspiring evidence of the German spirit placed before them...
...ball exceeded all expectations as a success both financially and socially, and in what way my personal appearance could enhance your article about the dance, I cannot understand...
...room for anything beyond Kant, with the result that the student gets the idea that philosophy ends at the opening of the nineteenth century. He knows nothing of Spencer or Nietzche or of contemporary schools, and so is given little which is of value in trying to understand present-day thought...
There is the further fault that the six important figures are studied not in relation to the history of thought or as the products of their eras, but too much as individual, isolated minds. In attempting to understand the significance of a man's thought one must know something of the period and environment which that thought reflects. But only the sketchiest historical background is given in the lectures and there is none in the reading...