Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paraphrased Sophocles on the sin of pride that inhibits a strong man from admitting his mistakes. In Kansas, he evoked the late William Allen White ("The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow"*) to show that someone past 30, or even 42, can indeed understand the alienation of the young. In Alabama, he condemned "anarchy" and "those who burn and loot"; in Tennessee, he lamented that "machine guns have fired at American children" (his aides said he was referring to the Detroit riot...
...through the air until the last instant, when he extends his legs way out ahead of him-and sometimes plops right back down on his fanny, spoiling the jump. But most often Beamon defies gravity and thrusts himself forward. No one can explain quite how. Nor do track buffs understand much else that Beamon does. A 9.5-sec. sprinter in the 100, he races through his approach at a speed generally considered too tiring for an all-out jump. And Beamon is still deciding how far to run before takeoff: he usually favors a run of 134 ft, but both...
According to the myth, the white man can't understand the Negro, but the Negro, through long observation, knows every wrinkle of the white man's mind...
Miss Bodian says that no one, Shaw students or tutors, completely understood the tension that was building, but that it was the Shaw students who first gave it expression. Not only did the Shaw students know and understand the tension, but they did everything in their power to bring this tension to the surface and express it without offending the white tutors. That tension which was felt and understood was not only viable then but as James Baldwin once uttered cryptically, "Every Negro American risks having the gates of paranoia close on him." It was indeed the paranoia which...
...everybody talking about hate? I don't hate anyone, I don't care if he's purple or green or what. We just have to understand each other. If white people just got to know black people, just sat down and talked with them, that's all you need...