Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Styron says he can understand why his black critics had "this emotional response, and I can accommodate myself to it." But he cannot let it bother him any more. "Some of the points are well taken," he says of Ten Black Writers, "but ninety per cent of it is shallow. I can excuse them for their passion, but not for the preposterous things they said...
...best ways to understand some of the things Hugh Calkins has said at Harvard in the last month is to see what he has been saying in Cleveland for the last ten years...
Then, in 1951, Calkins moved to Cleveland. Some of his political associates there, with a note of civic deprecation, say they still do not understand why Calkins left Boston, Harvard, and the East for industrial, unattractive Cleveland. As a bright young man who had just been a clerk for a Supreme Court Justice, Calkins could easily have stepped on the escalator to success in law or government...
...attempt to understand Bob Dylan's works, one ought to consider his music, his lyrics and his singing style separately, since each of these three elements has different history in the development of his art. Their conjunction--in the various stages of each's evolution--is responsible for both the wide variety of Dylan's musical output, and its enduring unity...
...Definitions -- If you understand already, advance...