Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he will probably miss out on being a bombardier, Krents has been thinking of alternate plans for the future. "I understand that the Chicago White Sox, following the policy of complete equality demonstrated by my draft board, have decided to offer me a contract as a pitcher," he said...
Statistically, it is the people who do less well in terms of grades and academic standing who go to Business School and follow other roads to a business career. We can understand this partially by nothing that on this campus most students who go into business engage in extra-curricular activities, spend more time on social life, and are less grade-oriented than the academically-oriented students, who tend to be less suited to business careers anyway. This may well be the case in many circumstances, but it is too easy an explanation to wipe out the basic statistical trend...
...severest critic. "I can't think of one of my novels she's really liked," says Updike. "When she read The Poorhouse Fair, she said, 'Why do you want to write about all those old people? After The Centaur, she said, 'You can't understand all the mythology.' After Of the Farm, she said, 'Nothing happens.' And with Couples, she said she felt that she was being smothered in pubic hair. Actually I did take some...
Heeded Lesson. Not even Lyndon Johnson. Last month, the day after he announced that he was not going to run for reelection, he suggested in a speech before the National Association of Broadcasters that TV had played a role in that decision: "I understand far better than some of my severe and intolerant critics will admit, my own shortcomings as a communicator." Then, hinting that the gore on the home screen was a major cause of the public opposition to his Viet Nam policy, he said that TV seemed "better suited to convey the actions of conflict than to dramatizing...
...camera is often myopic, newscasters have been adding commentary to frame the picture in proper perspective. But the crush of hme leaves little time for reflection. "As journalists," says CBS's Eric Sevareid, "we are not keeping pace with realities; we report them but we do not truly understand them, so we do not really explain. Our problem is to find the techniques that will balance the spot news and the spot picture and put them in proportion." Until then, viewers must make their own judgments based on the realization that the news in pictures is not the whole...