Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editorial page called "The Sit-Ins Work." The piece pointed out that the remarkable thing about students actions against Dow and the Army and things was successful--the students almost always won their demands. That is what happened at Harvard this April. The sit-in worked. I think I understand better now why it worked. It worked because the people in charge thought that what it was about was obviously important--since action in our society is so rare, and since everything has its reason. The sit-in worked--not because the kids threatened violence, which is banal--but because...
Because we cannot travel in time, we can never really understand time as the Tralfamadorians do. But, for their part, they can never comprehend the way in which we see events to be ordered. It's a matter of perspective. --JOHN G. SHORT
...concept whose existence depends on an individual's not knowing what "the future" will be like. (For Tralfamadorians, the future can be defined as those moments whose determining conditions are taking shape in the moment presently being visited. We say the future comes "after" now.) If we can understand time to be an entity that always exists in its entirety, then the irritating concept of free will dissolves into pleasant nothingness...
...Dante were alive today, he might well add another circle in the lower depths of his Inferno. Inhabiting this new pit of horror would be the warring Negro leaders of Harlem and the meddling white man who tries to understand them. It is just such a journey into hell that D. Keith Mano, a white author, describes with Dantesque fervor in his second novel, Horn...
...appreciate their mental and emotional fatigue at the time, but the black students have spent one full year in similar circumstances, expecting action and participation in vain. Perhaps the Faculty members can begin to understand the anger which I, for one, feel...