Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Covering the war here is often agonizing," he says, "but I suppose the appeal of it is that it's such a complicated war, and such a difficult war for both the United States and Viet Nam to bear. I feel it important to understand...
...that we would negotiate only if all of the violence in South Viet Nam were stopped while we continue to bomb the North, most people would say that we were crazy. When the other side makes exactly the same proposition in reverse, it is hard for me to understand why there are people who say, That sounds like a good proposition. Why don't you accept...
First Person. More moving was the encounter between Pike and his son. "Fletcher" reported to Pike: "This boy says that before he came over he was confused and mentally disturbed. He wants you to understand that you, nor any other member of the family, have any right to feel that you failed him in any way." Later, according to Pike, James Jr. told him directly: "I want you to realize this, that I enjoyed the time I was with...
...could understand Versalles error. But one couldn't cope with Yastrzemski. Here education came to an end, blunted, then smothered by religion. It was existential--the clutch. All the past hits established at best probability--more likely possibility, which is to say nothing. And that this man continued to overpower these situations, seven out of eight times--holding our religious feeling in hand, toying with it, and with another hit driving that feeling still higher--that was inhuman...
...service-oriented among these students, and perhaps some of the free-wheeling intellectuals also, might be less dissatisfied if the law schools could do even more than they presently do to offer a degree in applied social science for those who want to understand and to change institutions. The major law schools offer a home to a number of faculty members with a reformist bent, who see the law as perhaps the principal process for channeling and controlling the fierce and explosive energies of our population. Some of these men have worked on the urban frontier, some on the international...