Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is a great and complex country. . . . It is easy to sing her praise, it is not difficult to be satirical about her, but the most difficult is to understand...
...During these two months, I have read a pack of fantastic stories about my person. It is easy to understand all they invent . . . about Russia. One says, they make up stories because the Russians allegedly do not admit Americans into their country. By the way, I know a great many American journalists in Moscow. There are among them conscientious men, and others...
...bawled for violence: "I call on every red-blooded white man to use any means to keep the niggers away from the polls. If you don't understand what that means you are just plain dumb...
Pathetic Paradox. It is typical of the dilemma of this civilization that masses of men humbly accept the fact of Einstein's genius, but only a handful understand in what it consists. They have heard that, in his Special and his General Theories of Relativity, Einstein finally explained the form and the nature of the physical universe and the laws governing it. They cannot understand his explanation. To a small elite of mathematicians and physicists, the score of equations in which Einstein embodied his picture of the universe and its functioning are as concrete as a kitchen table...
Hence the pathetic paradox that Einstein's discoveries, the greatest triumph of reasoning mind on record, are accepted by most people on faith. Hence the fact that most people never expect to understand more about Relativity than is told by the limerick...