Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article on inflation in the U.S. [June 20] will leave many Europeans puzzled. In view of the market prices you publish, which strike us as being generally much lower than those quoted in Western Europe for similar articles, the predicament of the cited middle-income families is difficult to understand. Our market basket is certainly much more expensive than the U.S. housewife's, but in Europe no $25,000-income family would think it had to do without its annual vacation or renewing its dining-room chairs, and an $8,600-income family would certainly not be looked upon...
...those around them," says Psychiatrist Burton Podnos, administrator of the local Mental Health Center. Absorbed all day in scientific precision, engineers are apt to accuse their wives of sloppy housekeeping if they find an unwashed coffee cup in the sink. It is hard for some of them to understand why there is not an effective system for toilet-training the baby...
...Grin. Subtle characterization has never been the Duke's long suit. Instead, he and Hathaway create an antique through a series of gestures and symbols-a grin that congeals into a mask of hate, a plodding gait that belies the deadly hands, a primitive mind that can only understand an idea or a society by turning it over and looking at the underside. In the end they come up with a flawless portrait of a flawed man who is as simple, as forceful-and as dangerous-as Mattie's cap-and-ball Colt pistol...
...Negro scholars agree with the legitimacy of a separate black-theology movement. Dr. Joseph R. Washington Jr., author of Black Religion, argues that "if you mean by theology a cognitive body of knowledge and a means to intellectually and structurally understand it, then I question if there is a black theology. I tend not to think of theology as experience." But Cone, perhaps the most ardent exponent of an uniquely Negro Christianity, does not agree. "I don't intend to let black theology be a passing fad," he says. "Students for generations to come will be talking about...
None held your eye for long, each offsets another. Different types of pieces push the spectator in many directors, questioning, threatening, challenging the eye to understand flashing pink strokes of light or a black and white kalidescopic pattern...