Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swung on key blunders. The main question of the day-whether the anti-war vote would come in the meeting or in a recess or convocation-was decided by a margin of one vote, 214-215. At least ten Faculty members said after the meeting that they did not understand what was going on at the time the motion to recess came...
...take shape through the policies we support or oppose. The pattern is probably woven along certain lines. The recurring questions for the man who sits behind the desk are: What are those lines? What is their substance and form and how shall I discover this? Who will help me understand the kind of university we need in contemporary America...
...Brown will be matched on the Astro Turf in the other Ivy opener. Expect a split in the non-league games. Expect me to be wrong. I picked Princeton by a touchdown last week. I flattered Yale by predicting a tie. If I make a few tash choices, understand that I'm upset. My Mount Kisko centennial pennant just fell off the wall...
From the moment she decided to marry him in 1952, she became as convinced as he was that God had a special mission planned for Martin. When he was asked to take on the leadership of the spontaneous Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, they began to understand what the mission would be. All along the extraordinary path that his life then took he agonized over the difficult consequences of his actions. But he never doubted that he was the instrument of God. Once when a mood of deep depression seemed suddenly to have lifted from him overnight, a reporter wondered...
...avoid systems, we must act as if they don't exist; we must see how funny all that supposed logic is. We should wear lampshades on our heads, urinate in the kitchen, say "Fuck you" to any system that tries to encroach on our humanity. James Thurber would understand this kind of approach to life. And so would acid heads, people with good peripheral vision, and Lenny Bruce...