Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hero, Joseph, is half-English, half-Jewish, and he is made ambivalent enough to see the worst in his adopted people, yet understand and sympathize with their supposed illness. ("But Jewry is a sick race; its disease is homelessness, and can only be cured by abolishing its homelessness.") He can thrill mentally to their achievements in Palestine and at the same time deplore the human product of their experience...
...staying at the tiny Left Bank Hotel Montalembert, where he has rewritten his play Twilight Bar (a flop in the U.S., it never reached Broadway) for a Fans performance. He refuses to identify himself as a Zionist, says he doesn't approve of terrorism but can understand the Jews' bitterness and despair. To write Thieves in the Night he drew on two years of banging around in the Near East (20 years ago) as a correspondent for a German paper. He took out Palestine citizenship then, spent nine months in Jewish communes in Palestine last year...
...denouncement of the U. S. press, so-called "officials" such as John Foster Dulles and American Legion commanders, and some churchmen, pope, director of the Iranian Institute, urged people of this country to "put themselves in the Russians' place" in an effort to understand what makes soviet foreign policy appear difficult to cope with...
...casual look at the weekly laundry. If the man of the house is a laborer or railroad man, there's usually a pair or two of denim overalls and a matching jumper. If there are children in the family there is evidence of them on the clothesline. I understand that in New England old-fashioned longies appear on the lines later in the season. But it is feminine things hanging in the back yards which reveal sadly,--no dispassionately,--what has happened to our once ingenious women folk...
Russia is tentatively and haltingly, but with apparently sincere intent, making overtures of friendliness to the Western World. Any rebuff to her well meant gestures would be tragic. More than ever American and British leaders must demonstrate their desire to understand the Russian position. They must show by their actions that the red-baiting minorities in each country do not have the backing of those who formulate national policy...