Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...style of the advertisements, an extraordinary mixture of sheer lushness with clipped and sometimes very expensive technical jargon. Words like suave-mannered, custom-finished, contour-conforming, mitt-back, innersole, backdip, midriff, swoosh, swash, curvaceous, slenderize and pet-smooth are flung about with evident full expectation that the reader will understand them at a glance...
Time is the "sine qua non" for achieving industrial peace. Time and a sincere effort by both parties to understand the problems of the other. Vindictive, partisan legislation will only add fuel to the flames and postpone the day when the full industrial might of this nation can surge into action...
...Garraway in "Undercurrent" could be explained somehow by an extreme inferiority complex, compounded with dementia praecox, schizophrenia, and an old murder and robbery hanging over his head, it is hard to explain the interminably delayed mental processes and reactions of Katharine Hepburn as his wife, Ann, who fails to understand what's wrong in the face of every possible warning and danger...
...Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, whose play, The Respectful Prostitute* was attacked in Paris as anti-American, protested with a reasonableness so sweet that it seemed oldfashioned. He just did not understand, said he, what anti-American meant. "One finds [in the U.S.] ways . . . which are excellent," he hummed, "and some which are not so good." (M. Sartre's No Exit was to open on Broadway this week...
...better music than Strauss waltzes and Tchaikovsky. So we have gone from Victor Herbert to Aaron Copland, from Rachmaninoff to Shostakovich." He is one of the most relaxed conductors in the business, but believes that the waving of his long spidery arms helps both the orchestra and audience to understand the music...