Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finally people have learned to understand the Negro's music [June 28] why the hell can't they understand the man or woman who's singing it? Soul music is not something that just came on the scene, it has been here since the black man came to America; it started way back in those cotton fields in Mississippi, Georgia, etc. That was all we had, when we were out in the hot sun picking cotton; finally a nice cool breeze came and you just had to let someone know that you had the feeling...
...blessings of privacy, you understand, are not limited to protection from the public; they protect one from one's relatives as well. As it happens, I ascribe much of the success of my own three marriages (that's not many at my age I happen to be 68) to the luxury of plenty of elbow room. Association is more pleasant the more voluntary it is. A man feels the absolute need to get away from time to time to his own room, to his own wing, to his own little hideaway in the country or pied-a-terre in town...
Sometimes a collection can be awfully handy. Winston and CeeZee Guest discovered that last fall when they were temporarily strapped for cash (not that I understand how that happened to them). Anyway, they got $812,275 for their Chinese porcelains and French antiques at Parke-Bernet, instead of the mere $500,000 they had counted on. Jewels are more durable than porcelain, but they're easily heisted; Sonny and Marylou Whitney got robbed of $780,000 worth at Saratoga a year ago, and their insurance premiums must be ferocious. Coins can be better guarded, but someone recently stole Willis...
...order that, though born deprived of supernatural grace, they may be reborn." Paul thus brushed aside the questioning of infant baptism raised recently by Catholics and non-Catholics alike on a variety of grounds-the most important of which asks whether those baptized should not be old enough to understand the significance of the ritual...
...Unlike the Greeks viewing the Parthenon, the Italians the Forum, the French the Louvre, Americans do not look for monuments of former greatness and glory. Their quest is rather that of a people who feel they have achieved much and expect to achieve more - but who also want to understand the roots of that achievement...