Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times, McCarthy could be petty and vindictive. Robert Kennedy could never understand the apparent hatred McCarthy felt for him-an emotion that seemed to have deeper origins than Bobby's political sin of joining the race after New Hampshire. The bettereducated, McCarthy told an audience in Oregon, preferred him to Kennedy. "Kennedy plays softball," he said at another point. "I play baseball." His flair for the malicious aside showed again when he talked about Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, an early supporter who left him for Bobby, then returned after the assassination, staying on until the last ballot. "Dick Goodwin," said...
...almost with compassion that a Czechoslovak editorialist in Bratislava Pravda, before the censorship closed down on him, observed that "not Czechoslovakia, but the great power Russia, has arrived at the crossroads of history. It arrived with tanks, troop carriers and hungry and grimy soldiers who failed to understand why they were sent. Let us remember the philosopher who said: 'Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends...
...walls all over town: "We have not learned anything, we don't know anything, we don't have anything, we don't give anything, we can't do anything, we don't sell anything, we don't help, we don't understand, we don't betray." The tenth was printed in large letters: "We will not forget anything." The "commandments" proved to be captive Czechoslovakia's secret weapon against the Russian invaders...
This summer Epstein used federal and foundation grants to hold month-long seminars at Tufts University for 13 Negro teachers of molecular biology and physiology. He also brought in ten black freshmen from Tennessee A. & I. to take the experimental course. They came to understand the papers as well as his students at Brandeis, Epstein discovered, and they did so faster. This is partly because the method places more emphasis on understanding the scientists' techniques than on reading comprehension. One girl even suggested an experimental technique similar to one that had led to a breakthrough in molecular genetics...
...captures an illusive sense of life's strangeness. It is when he tries to examine his own estrangement that he becomes a confused prisoner of himself. He calls this book a search for himself, yet adds with equal earnestness that "the more I explain myself, the less I understand myself." The closest he comes to that understanding is when he describes himself as "someone who hopes to win first prize in a lottery without having bought a ticket...