Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...camp administration can arbitrarily curtail the time of meetings" with relatives, and "a considerable number of our letters and the letters sent to us disappear without a trace. We cannot write about our situation; such letters always disappear." Thus, the prisoners add, the lawmakers of the Supreme Soviet "will understand how difficult it is for us to defend what remains of our miserable rights...
Increased government funding requires increased vigilance. The faculty and the university administration may have to work more actively at educating government agencies and private donors. Both groups must continue to understand the importance of providing funds for scholarship that is neither mission-oriented nor politically motivated...
This statement goes on to assert, in terms which could not be more disingenuous, the responsiveness of Harvard administration and faculty to student demands: "There can be no doubt of their desire to understand the pressures of war, social unrest, poverty, racial discrimination, and the rise of impersonal political institutions on Harvard students-as indeed on students everywhere...
...Moth Confesses is a record because Saussy wanted to write an opera more complex than an audience could understand in a single live performance. This "phonograph opera" becomes more resonant and eloquent with each replay. The style eludes easy description, except by comparison to MacArthur Park by Saussy's friend Jim Webb (whose influence is evident in The Moth's "Midsummer Night"and "Morning Girl," available out of context as a single). Both composers create serious and elaborate structures by joining an array of classical forms with borrowings from the sentimental popular music written for Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett...
...Senate campaign. Voters were angry. The media played up the violence in the street, which had an entertainment value, but the causes of violence received scanty coverage. Gilligan's son Don, a senior at Harvard who spent most of first semester in Ohio, concluded" "We didn't really understand the way people were thinking. We hammered away at the solutions which were necessary: getting out of Vietnam, rebuilding the cities. But what people wanted to hear about were the riots and crime. In small towns, all they could talk about were campus radicals, though the nearest major university might...