Word: understands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong chin, which means determination," puffed Arthur Brisbane in his column next day, "and a forehead to balance it." But most of old Columnist Brisbane's enthusiasm was reserved for Nancy Jo Landon, 3. Burbled he: "It is hard to understand why Governor Landon should bother with politics, possessing such a daughter. Nothing in nature is as beautiful as a little girl, and this is a marvelously beautiful little girl. . . . She may be the first woman President...
...Eliot's The Waste Land and echoed by a thousand imitators has no place or significance in this world. On the contrary, the poet gives an impression of eagerness and determination in facing the experiences of contemporary life, even the most brutal, and making a passionate effort to understand them and incorporate them into her verse. Consequently, although her work is often confused, Theory of Flight is a suggestive book that seems to promise a durable career for its author...
...meet my friend John Dryden who did talk to meet my friend John Dryden who did talk to me of the purpose of poetry that it was to "instruct delightfully" and I sought to draw him out to talk of his "Marriage a la Mode." He did not understand when I did tell him one day it would delight young students even as a Christmas play so I turned to philosophy and I did hear him say that Nature was the source and end and test of art. This coming from so great a scholar pleased me much...
...education which is important and effective is self-education, and a student acquires knowledge and learns only by working things out for himself. The only way he can quicken his own mental processes, follow an author's line of thought and understand a topic is by reading and analysing the author's original work as a whole and as distinguished from a digest thereof...
...This accentuates a tendency to make the students feel that the important thing is to pass examinations, regardless of the means, rather than to master and understand the subject, train the mind, and develop critical habits of thought. It has also been our experience that the use of these abridgements encourages a certain type of students to even more questionable methods of passing an examination...