Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...philosopher and the sword." Mama Debray, meantime, caused a near riot by defending those nice guerrillas to an audience that included the survivors of some of the guerrillas' victims. She also threw her son a dialectical screwball by revealing that "it was very difficult for me to understand his book." Said she: "I think he has invented a new brand of Marxism...
...patterns is quietly emerging as one of U.S. education's most damning critics. In his 1964 book, How Children Fail, Teacher John Holt unreeled a series of classroom anecdotes to show that children-beset by teacher-imposed fear, confusion and boredom-merely grope for right answers, rather than understand. In a sequel, How Children Learn, to be published next month, he illustrates the spontaneous ways in which kids embrace knowledge before they enter schools, where they "learn to be stupid...
...people participated, including temple assistants alert to any deviation from the strict five-hour procedure. Any mistake would have to be corrected before the ceremony could continue. Details of the rites, however, are strictly confidential. "If we made them public," says one Mormon, "people who didn't understand our belief might make a mockery of them; sometimes being secret is the only...
...Bravo! TIME has rewarded the councils of moderation with badly needed publicity. But as a Negro I am still convinced that white people do not understand the lines of cleavage among us. Whitney Young and others like him represent the upper crust. They claim to speak for their oppressed brothers in the ghetto but cannot even speak to them. Those of us who live in the ghetto are doomed to name our own leaders and to select our own representatives...
They are not young men, nor are they yet men of note. They are worldly philosophers--quick to understand the classical implications of modern-day politics, and quick to dispose of classical rationalizations...