Word: understands
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More to the point, however, Harvard is confused. Donald C. Moulton, assistant vice-president for community affairs responds to the community's recent activities by admitting, "to tell you the truth, I don't understand what they are trying to do." He adds, of course, that Harvard will fight any restrictions on its rights to build in Cambridge. And not only have residents made their own work more difficult by skirting the problem and stalling for time, but they have avoided any direct communication with the institution they are battling...
Outsiders find the escape artist's life difficult to understand. To some, they may appear a strange bunch, seeking the masochistic pleasure of being tied up with ropes and chains. In that vein, psychologist Bernard C. Meyer, author of Houdini A Mind in Chains, claims Houdini's behavior was the product of a "tortured and neurotic mind," preoccupied with images of its own death. And certainly, there would appear to be some truth to the idea that only a certain type of person will seek, among other pastimes, to have himself tied up and thrown into a river...
...advantage, but we lost it, and now we have our backs to the wall," he said. "I just can't understand why Harvard people don't get excited about Princeton...
John Godey has almost, but not quite, written a good thriller. The Talisman is more complex than it should be for easy, late night reading, and even the title, which somehow refers to the Unknown Soldier, is difficult to understand. But the book does not quite qualify as a serious novel, either. Godey is reaching for importance in describing the hopes and feeling of anti-war protesters stranded without a war to protest. In the end, however all his book achieves is sensationalism...
...many cases it caused friction at home. People such as Brannan and Crist say they have talked long and intensely to parents who are non-Christians and who can't understand their children's new lives, nor why their children no longer view them as real Christians. Although in the short run the disapproval and sinfulness of those you love is enormously frustrating, in the long run Christians aren't worried, because, as Donovan puts it, Christ has already triumphed...