Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond the Kopechne and Kennedy families,* it has been the girls at the party whose lives have been most unsettled by the accident. "You can't begin to understand what it has been like," says Susan Tannenbaum, a congressional secretary. "I place a tremendous value on the right of privacy, but suddenly I'm infamous. The real meaning of what you are and what you value remains intact inside yourself, but there you are, splashed all over the papers." There has been "lots of sick mail," says another of the girls, "lots of it." Susan asks indignantly...
...think they understand, but some of them simply had enough-they are broken. There are boys here who have only 90 days left in Viet Nam. They want to go home in one piece. The situation is psychic here...
...created?the good vibrations or the bad ones, the young in touch with themselves and aware. If Bethel is any proof, this kind of expressive happening will become even more important. "This was only the beginning," warns Jimi Hendrix. "The only way for kids to make the older generation understand is through mass gatherings like Bethel. And the kids are not going to be in the mud all the time. From here they will start to build and change things. The whole world needs a big wash, a big scrub-down...
...There are two sides here," Mrs. Kopechne continued. "Mr. Kopechne and I on this side and the Kennedy name on the other. Everybody is on that side." Mary Jo's parents accept Kennedy's explanation of his delay in reporting the accident. "I can understand shock," Mrs. Kopechne said. "But I cannot understand Mr. Gargan and Mr. Markham. They weren't in shock. Why didn't they get help? That's where my questions start." The couple is curious as to how Kennedy could return unnoticed to the cottage after the accident. Assuming that Kennedy...
...than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary. Medievalists--at times indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that, smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbaries, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become to vast for us to cope with, or even understand; we are too small, and too afraid." Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence on the Middle Ages. And now, you see, having dazzled me, having won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only job is to keep me awake. When I sleep I give...