Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commenting upon the proposal for union between the Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches in the United States, TIME'S religion editor might well ponder upon the difference between mating (which produces merely offspring) and marriage in the Christian sense (which produces a family), and better understand the justifiable caution with which many in both churches approach the issue...
...Communist Koreans found it hard to understand U.S. tolerance of Communist troublemaking and Russian interference in the U.S. zone through propaganda and financial aid from the Soviet zone. U.S. prestige was seriously damaged. Cost to U.S. taxpayers of the first year of Korean occupation...
...American liberals are spending too much time on their knees, repenting, and not enough on their feet, going somewhere. Communism will be defeated by liberalism . . . but not until Americans understand that their own Revolution was much more fundamental than the Russian Revolution, and that Lincoln and not Lenin is the predestinate symbol of the common...
...with all the nostalgic music plugged in, might easily have turned out to be an unpalatable mixture of chestnuts and corn. This movie succeeds in blending the inevitable flavors so smoothly that very young cinemagoers who never heard Jolson -and oldsters who were never enthusiastic about him-may now understand why he was one of America's favorite entertainers during the frenzied...
...group in the Edward Dent translation, opens the season and will introduce to Boston a new, or Goldovsky, method of direction. The theory is that opera is primarily theatrical. Corollary one states that you cannot give convincing performances of an opera in a language which the east does not understand. Corollary two demonstrates that singers must be able to do more than get their notes right--though this is considered important. As a result, less attention is paid to the conductor and more to the score...