Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Interior, comes in for a barrage of questions when he appears for confirmation hearings before the Senate Interior Committee. He has already learned that what is true of Alaska's moose is also true of the critics who have made him a controversial Nixon appointee: You have to understand how a conservationist thinks. You can't tell a conservationist to change his habits...
...primates one step removed from the jungle has been put forward by a number of behavioral scientists working in such fields as genetics, neurophysiology and primatology. Says Anthropologist Robin Fox of Rutgers, whose specialty is the sexual conduct of man the animal: "We are only beginning to understand the implications of extending to behavior the same kind of analysis that has proved successful with flesh and bone...
They had to be both patient and abstemious-qualities that, on examination, involve considerable intelligence. Chance has called this process "equilibration"-defined by Fox as "the ability to control and to time responses, to understand the consequences of one's actions." The foolish peripheral male obeyed only his hormones, invaded the dominant male's harem and was either killed or ostracized. The clever male restrained this impulse and intelligently awaited a fruitful opportunity to topple, replace or succeed the Sultan...
Potency jokes-another rich vein of Legmanian source material-invariably conceal the fear of inadequacy or impotence behind outrageous boasts: First woman: "Did you hear about the woman who had quadruplets? I understand that only happens once every 60,000 times." Second woman: "My goodness, when does she get her housework done?" Although the characters are women, the perspective is male; as Legman notes, women never compose dirty jokes but are nearly always the butt of them. The alleged insatiability of the female also runs as an undercurrent through that story-providing a way for the male who is worried...
...seven seasons in a row. That got to be boring and, in an effort to liven things up, Danny kept switching coaches. When he fired No. 6 just two days before Christmas of 1965, some people said that he had become too difficult to work with. Danny could not understand that. As he often said, football was, after all, just "fun and games...