Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast wasn't always inspired either--too many of those turn-away-from-the-stage spots. Actors swallowed lines as though they hadn't eaten for weeks. They took unnecessarily hearty pleasure in driving home puns we wouldn't understand. They walked like cowboys if they were friars and like six-year-olds if they were pregnant women...
Harvard shouldn't lose tonight, but if it does an end at least will be put to one of the winter's tragedies. No one has ever claimed to understand Coach Weillands many personnel shifts, but an extreme of incomprehensibility was reached when he benched his captain, Dennis McCullough. McCullough was the team's goal leader his sophomore year, was third in that department last year, and was second high scorer this season when Weiland stopped giving him regular turns late in December. Since then, McCullough has been used only to kill penalties, and Weiland even avoids him occasionally...
...after a trial that lasted 40 days." Chou chewed out the Guards for other, less fatal outrages-against the minister for railroads, the minister for agricultural land reclamation and the minister for commerce, one Yao Yilin. "I have had to order him to take a rest," said Chou. "I understand you have issued a warrant for his arrest. Such a warrant amounts to one for the arrest of all members of the party's Central Committee. I must say I support your revolutionary spirit, but I must also say that you have to abide by the dictates and disciplines...
...those who have yet to understand McLuhan, this book is a provocative primer. In both text and pictures, it uses the zany Zen technique of shattering orderly thought with irrational accident. Even the title is a gag, deriving from McLuhan's earlier pronouncement: "The medium is the message." That meant, as any anthropologist might have put it, that technology predetermines social structure; hence, tools prefigure the psychology of their users. By punningly altering the slogan, McLuhan merely means that "all media work us over completely...
...satisfactory conclusion. Defending the war on a historical or strategic basis is just not his forte. When asked to discuss some of the more subtle problems inherent in America's policy, he responds in cliches. For example, he was asked why America's European allies have been unable to understand and appreciate the logic of our position in Southeast Asia? His answer: "In the present world, allies on all sides don't always agree." Nothing else...