Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important half just isn't there. The boy she meets is at the heart of Horovitz's piece; here is a kid who wants to be sensitive, wants to be a poet, wants to be in love. True, he is awkward and amusing (He writes poetry he does not understand, paraphrased from Zen poets), but he is also a human being. As performed by David Pollock, though, he is a silly comic prop--a cardboard version of Art Carney's Ed Norton characterization...
Newsmen and other observers could not understand why Lincoln Park was swept clear each night at curfew and why Grant Park, opposite the Loop, was not. The report solves this mystery and, like so much in the confrontations, the difference came down to a matter of personality. The deputy chief of police in charge of Lincoln Park said that if the curfew was not enforced, yippies and others would take it as a sign of weakness...
...vacation retreat in Florida, Nixon worships at Key Biscayne's Presbyterian church. Nevertheless, he still lists himself as a Quaker. His mother described him once as "an intensely religious man, but he shuns even the restrained rituals of the faith. I am sure other Quakers understand my son. They know why he has been the center of so many controversies. Quakers are gentle and tolerant people, but they are also stubborn in defending their opinions and high-minded in pursuing their ideals...
...beginning of public wisdom is to understand the criminal's mind. On this score, Psychiatrist Menninger is a persuasive teacher. After studying criminals for almost half a century, Menninger, 75, has concluded that most of them are "helpless" people who seem to have had fouralternativesinlife: activism,conformity, insanity, criminality. The criminal, who may be escaping madness, commonly seeks vengeance against real or symbolic tormentors. He is sure that society is wrong, not he. Ironically, the whole legal system tends to confirm his notion. For one thing, trials are mainly contests between lawyers, not impartial efforts to diagnose misfits...
...elastic to be useful for political analysis. If a middle-class university professor and a young executive have to be lumped together in the same unit of analysis because they live in the same suburb the concept of class is not going to be any help in trying to understand the different social roles...