Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless the effort to understand this aspect of the Who was not wasted. Such close attention to examples of this kind in their songs is not mere critical pedantry or an attitude of more-scrupulous-than-thou but dealing as it does with the core of the Who's enterprise it is as such worthy of extensive examination...
This mere outline is not enough and the song has to be listened to for the total experience, full of dark and slippery suggestion, to understand the Who's near-total mastery of this medium they have created for themselves...
...single strand of wire. Asian-style politesse prevails in the low-key propaganda war at Natu Pass. Indian loudspeakers kick off daily with news and propaganda in Mandarin Chinese at 5:30 a.m. The Chinese speakers reply in somewhat stilted classical Hindi, which most jawans do not understand, from 6:30 to 11. Then the Indians resume until 1:30 p.m., when both sides fall silent for the rest of the day. Neither side interrupts the other...
...cutoff line vague on State Department advice, and the vagueness was deliberate. State strategists figured that the impact on world opinion would be greatest if immediately after his statement the bombing frontier was dramatically cut back to the vicinity of the 17th parallel. Diplomats assumed that the Pentagon would understand these motives. But the generals, aware that the President, on strictly military grounds, had actually drawn the line at the 20th parallel, well into Ho Chi Minh territory, promptly bombed to the northern limits of their authority. Washington-not to say a great number of Americans-was paralyzed with dismay...
...addition to racism and misconceptions, many whites are simply ignorant. "There is a significant minority of white students who have a real grasp of what's going on and understand the problem (of the black man)," said Wayne Peeler, "but the great majority of white students are just liberal thinking or liberal feeling people who want to show their liberalism by being friendly with a Negro...