Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flag of the Soviet navy now proudly flies over the oceans of the world. Sooner or later, the U.S. will have to understand that it no longer has mastery of the seas...
...soldiers in a Saigon street. In no mood to ask questions, the spindly general whipped out his snub-nosed .38 revolver and wordlessly blew the suspect's brains out. "Many Americans have died recently," Loan told TV newsmen later. "So have many of my best friends. Buddha will understand...
...minute exchange of views was supposed to be an exercise in education through communication rather than a debate, it is difficult to know who learned what. Early in the discussion, Pusey was complaining, "I'm not sure I understand you," or "Where do we disagree?" and at the end, he was saying the same thing. If a student or Faculty member asked a new question on an already-discussed issue, Pusey always assumed that he had simply been misunderstood the first time, so he would say, "Let me try again...
...engine before letting him drive." Chomsky's own goal is far grander than grammar: to refine a philosophy of language and to fathom the workings of the mind. But he is not arrogant about his task. "It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence," he sighs, "to understand how human intelligence works...
...Bringing students of this persuasion [i.e., activists] back to reality presents a new kind of challenge to education, to Faculty certainly, but especially and with painful immediacy, perhaps to deans." Pusey has the roles reversed. It is the role of the students to make the rest of the University understand what is going on for them. Administrators are trying to run Harvard in a way incompatible with the new demands of 1968. Students must make them realize this...