Word: understands
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...Evangelical Christians can understand the stark conversion of scapegraces and rapscallions, since the history of Christianity is full of agonizing personal reform (St. Paul. St. Augustine). Recalling the anguish of saints and mystics in their lifelong search for a flash from heaven or a sudden touch of grace, some Christians find it difficult to accept the validity of easy Evangelical contacts with God. Still, grace has always been amazing, and that judgment may be too harsh. Whether they wrestled mightily in their souls for a private sense of the divine presence or slipped salvation on as easily as a glove...
...that the church "churns out ignorance and hysteria," but in the pulpit Smith is actually a balding Everyman, leading hymns with only modest gestures and offering unvarnished Bible lectures accompanied by a disarmingly broad smile. "People come here because God is explained to them in a way they can understand," says Smith. They can also understand Christianity in action. Calvary sponsors homes for separated wives and for children having trouble with parents, counseling for parents and vocational training. Smith points to an 85% recovery rate for youths with drug problems "once they find the Lord." Confirming the claim. Franklin Jones...
...Agent, Joseph Conrad described an act of anarchist terrorism as "a blood-stained inanity of so fatuous a kind that it was impossible to fathom its origin by any reasonable or even unreasonable process of thought." Today West Germans, in ordeals of introspection and defensive truculence, are trying to understand the almost autistic fury of their own terrorists. Why should their country-its political system stable and democratic, its wealth distributed reasonably well, its society open and obsessively moderate -have produced the murderous young of the Baader-Meinhof gang and the Red Army Faction...
...something of a neuter craft. Even as gifted a wordsmith and observer as Sevareid could, on days when his brow was furrowed but his mind only half engaged, sound merely sententious. As the CBS News code defines the job, the analyst is "to help the listener to understand, to weigh and to judge, but not to do the judging for him . . . the audience should be left with no impression as to which side the analyst himself actually favors...
Government planners are belatedly mapping a campaign to educate the public about the dangers of angel dust. But one official is frankly puzzled about how to approach PCP users. Says he: "It's hard to understand why people are taking PCP. They don't take it to get high. They don't take it to make sex better. They take it to zonk themselves out. In a way, it's a disguised death wish...