Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult to understand how you can write of "Detroit's success with the instrument" when we have never even had any experience with it. It is also difficult to comprehend how you can quote a "Detroit police official" as saying, "With six men carrying the sticks, we can penetrate 50 men and bust up their formation and come back out," when, in fact, the weapon has never been used in any crowd-control situation in Detroit or by Detroit police officers...
...Squad Executive Producer Aaron Spelling is 46 and a veteran of such old standards as Playhouse 90 and The Zane Grey Theater. Now his language is so hip it hurts. "We're telling it like it is," he says. "Somebody has to help adults understand young people. They've got so many hang-ups, and nobody seems to care. Love is the answer. Those hippies are right. The kids are so totally involved with life they've involved...
...fostered by technology has removed even those models. Youths today, she argued, are like children of wilderness pioneers-the first natives in a new world. "For the first time in human history," she said, "there are no elders anywhere who know what the young people know." Parents who would understand what their own generation has wrought, she implied, will have to reverse the traditional pattern and let their children teach them what the real issues and questions...
...Take a script of a play," Cooper said one night. "You can approach it in a lot of ways. The most common approach is to try to analyze and understand it. Just who is this character you are trying to play--that's the problem your mind has to deal with. If you understand your character, then you can try to feel like it, figuring out for yourself the whole pattern of its stage life...
...SOCIAL importance of the Atma enters into the picture in a subtle manner. For Samshak, the best thing that can be done with a play is to understand it. The Atma production of Zoo Story, he said, had taken the tragi-comic character of Jerry, divorced it from the comic limitations of the lines, and molded it into a densely emotional comment on American life. It was only at this intersection of the theatre and the world outside that the drama had relevance...