Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Waterloo. At first the Communists seemed stunned by their defeat. The victors gleefully taunted them with banners: "Togliatti-do you understand? Go back to Russia!" Rome chuckled over the story of the two Communist election judges at Ischia: when the returns were counted, only one Communist vote had been cast. Each judge called the other a traitor; both wound up in the hospital...
...Kapurthala's daughter inlaw, Princess Brinda, preparing to return home, looked back on the winter in Manhattan, submitted a visitor's impression to a New York Post reporter. "New York men and women," said she, "are lovelorn, forlorn, and emotionally torn. The men don't understand their women, and the women don't understand their men." Solution? "I suggest that your husbands and wives sit together silently in meditation for at least one hour...
...gloves; his reputation as both a wit and a bore ("Nobody bored him," said Violet Hunt, "he took care of that. . ."); his reputation for incomprehensibility ("Poor old James," said George Meredith, "he sets down on paper these mysterious rumblings in his bowels -but who could be expected to understand them?"); his reputation for social snobbery, and his reputation for knowing women only by observation and fancy-such were the handicaps he struggled against...
...have also a decay of the power of conviction or mastery; we permit ourselves everywhere to be overwhelmed by the accidents of our massive ignorance and by the apparent subjectivity of our individual processes ... It is a world alive and moving but which does not understand itself . . . Shaw is as difficult as Joyce, Mann as Kafka, if you really look into them. The difficulties arise . . . partly because of the conditions of society . . . The audience is able to bring less to the work of art than under the conditions of the old culture, and the artist is required to bring more...
...buildings and since there are some seventy organizations as well as numerous non-student and unorganized groups competing for highly inadequate space, a certain amount of disappointment and resentment is probably inevitable. It should not be too much to expect of Harvard students, however, that they understand the difficulties and have a reasonable attitude...