Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have some clear picture of what the emotional stresses of adolescence are in the United States in the 20th century, we have to say something first about adolescence itself in our society, its advantages and its difficulties. For those adolescents who go on to higher education, we must understand how the phase of development conflicts with social institutions and creates stresses of all kinds...
...soon as we began to understand the value of adolescence, we also began to understand the difficulty of having one foot in childhood and one foot in the grownup world. Even the saying that this stage of life is not a disease but a part of growing up, is a description of how troubling adolescence is for him and for us, i.e., the grownups. He has an infinite capacity for devising bedevilling situations and moral conundrums for the conventional adult world which makes our problem in coping with him infinitely stressful...
...omission of any psychologist from the student-faculty committee indicated that the University was primarily treating the incident as a disciplinary problem and did not understand the extent to which they were facing a problem in our culture in the relationship between generations. This lack of understanding became even more evident when President Pusey issued his Annual Report on the state of the University. In this Report he found the Dow incident disgraceful and said that no one had learned anything of importance from the episode...
...certainty, and much doubt, that the return on this enormous prospective effort will be commensurate with the investment. A broad and systematic enquiry is needed into the general question of how driving behavior is acquired, and how drivers can be taught not only to operate automobiles, but also to understand the major problems of highway safety, including its crash and post-crash aspects...
Lodge pointed to "our failure to understand the revolutionary process abroad" as the most significant problem facing America. Citing Rockefeller's work for the United Nations and experience in Latin American affairs, he said the New York Governor was the only candidate capable of confronting this problem...