Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cases, Congress has completely failed to understand what causes campus disturbances and why students are angry. Its reaction has been similar to its reaction to ghetto rioting--repression rather than constructive legislation...
...while railing against English decadence in an incurable English accent. But Sheed's tale is more than an ironic pathology of the right-wing mind, more, even, than a wry diagnosis of a severely fractured nationality. It also captures the comic anguish of a youth who begins to understand himself just at the moment when he loses the sense...
...Brinton wrote for the 25th Year Report of his class: "At present there are still a few ragged edges on my Weltanschauung. The more malicious among you will no doubt understand if I say that, whereas in 1919 I though of myself as a liberal with at least an initial capital, I now think of myself as a liberal in inverted commas...
...still speaks with a strong Irish brogue, O'Boyle had first tried persuasion with the recalcitrant priests. In a ten-page letter to each of them last month, he exuded a gentle, parental tone. "I hope you'll read [this] through," O'Boyle wrote. "Try to understand why I see things the way I do, and try to reconsider your own position." When the priests replied, in a joint statement, that they were sticking to their position, the Cardinal warned a dozen of them that they might be suspended. He later summoned all 52 to his office...
...Painted with normal eyes, a figure can wander off the canvas," John D. Graham once observed. To understand that remark, it is necessary to know something about Graham. Born Ivan Dabrowsky in Russia, he was a little-known painter who became a colorful figure in the Greenwich Village art scene and died still unrecognized at the age of 80-odd in 1961. He is currently being honored with an exhibit of 27 paintings and drawings at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art - and they show what he meant about eyes. Graham evidently felt that the viewer's attention...