Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the Very Rev. Robert I. Gannon, president of Fordham University, said it in words that everybody could understand. Said Father Gannon, "The fraud in the present campaign for educational inflation consists in spreading our national culture perilously thin and calling it 'democracy of education.' It consists in swelling the number of incompetents in American colleges and calling it 'equality of opportunity...
...Colonial, where the skillful hand of Director Peter Ashmore was even more prominent than the oh-so Shavian phrases of G.. B. Shaw and the excellences of the acting. Mr. Ashmore showed himself to be a master of style, to have a fine sense of movement, and to understand completely and sympathetically the temperament of the piece and the period with which he was involved...
...answer: "Comrade, you don't understand. Imagine that you live in Moscow, and there are no matches. You hear that in Gorky there are matches. Why, comrade, you take your airplane, you fly to Gorky, and you buy matches...
...takes a lot of integrity and a lot of finely disciplined inventiveness to understand and respect the spirit of a true story, to stay absolutely faithful to it, and to give it shape and edge as drama and as popular entertainment. The makers of Northside had all that it takes and then some. Honestly and resourcefully filmed, the picture was shot, for the most part, against the Chicago backgrounds where the actual events took place. The sound track, as cleanly intelligent as the camera work, deserves a special Oscar: except in the dives, where instrumental music is proper, practically...
...wanted to win the Polish-American vote in 1944. He tells of a State Department official who tried to prevail on Franklin Roosevelt to take a firmer policy with Stalin on Poland, only to be told : " 'You may know a lot about international affairs, but you do not understand American politics...