Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important for ghetto children to understand and respect the police, it is just as essential that we whom adults are fond of calling "leaders of tomorrow" also gain insight into the fact that policemen are human beings. I think I get the message...
Googlies. But there are a select few Americans, possibly 5,000 in a handful of colleges and clubs, who understand the complexities of cricket. They think it rather keen to serve the batsman "googlies" and "yonkers" and play positions called "second slip," "gully" and "silly mid-on." What is more, the very best of them were over in England last week impertinently challenging the masters to a match. They got a hearty welcome. Except for the U.S., cricket has spread around the empire, with frequently embarrassing results. Twice running, in 1963 and 1966, the West Indies beat England in test...
...decades later. "I knew what was coming," he said. "The streets were choked with Mercedes full of Nazis. But all that those dear people talked about was whether Mahler or Bruckner was a better composer-that was the big debate then. To this day I don't understand why they didn't see it and get out; but the sad truth is that no matter what public tragedy is looming, people continue acting out their own private comedies...
...executioner, she maintained: "A gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never." Even as they felt the impact of his boisterous personality, the sting of his vindictiveness, or the thrust of his appetite for pleasure and power, the contemporaries of King Henry VIII could never quite understand...
...treatment of script mechanics by distinct camerawork and editing. All worthwhile analysis of film, however literary in appearance, must hinge on our own interpretation of already interpretive images. But, children of media, inured to psychedelia and fearful of "verbalization," we must in tackling the narrative film understand some distinctions of literary-dramatic form in order to understand this transcendence of the first levels of visual reality...