Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worried," the mayor told an NBC newsman. "I don't know how they can do this to us. We're such a small town, I just don't understand how they can do this to us. We've always had such good relations with our colored people...
...bothers me-the sexless phrase. For it got me to thinking about the sign of the Cross. But I finally decided to stick with the old way: "Father, Son and Holy Ghost." I just couldn't see me blessing myself and saying: "It, Son, and Holy Ghost." You understand, don't you, Mary...
...that jazz is certified as America's own cultural contribution, the music world has pretty well taken it into the family. But only as a sort of stepsister. Classical musicians and listeners accept its presence, but they don't necessarily understand it, much less like it. Even the compliments they pay it-such as Stravinsky's frequently ex pressed fondness for its syncopated rhythms- tend to miss the point and be come condescending...
Secondly, the willingness of Senator Kennedy '48, to accept support from Robert McNamara indicates, to put it mildly, that he does not understand the basis of opposition to American foreign policy. The War in Vietnam is not the result of the demonic malevolence of Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, and Walt Rostow (all, incidentally, selected by John F. Kennedy '40), but follows quite directly from the policies pursued by the first Kennedy Administration. There is no confidence that a new Kennedy Administration would not feature the return to office of many men, of whom McNamara is only one, whose views...
...calls the problem of the role of the businessman. This concept seems to encompass both the intellectual and societal hang-ups of undergraduates in regard to business. The role of the doctor or the role of the lawyer are academically and socially defined and accepted. Most undergraduates today neither understand nor accept the concept of the role of the businessman. It has for too long been ambiguous. The role of the professional manager can now be well defined by the graduate business school, but is still quite confusing and undefined to the undergraduate...