Word: understands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...self-doubt. Carter is down. The world is far more somber and less prone to laughter." Yet Sidey believes that the first meeting of Brezhnev and Carter had both promise and "a little romance." As Chris Ogden puts it, "When two superpower leaders sit down and try to understand each other, it's a powerful instant. Like it or not, they have the capability to destroy this world, and the consequences of their meeting affect...
...Warsaw's Victory Square: The exclusion of Christ from the history of man is an act against man. Without Christ it is impossible to understand the history of Poland, especially the history of a people who have passed or are passing through this land. It is impossible without Christ to understand this nation, with its past so full of splendor and also of terrible difficulties...
...NATION. At the historic St. John's Cathedral, the congregation broke through ropes and mobbed the Pontiff. The day's climax was an open-air Mass for up to 500,000 people at downtown Victory Square. When John Paul declared, "Without Christ it is impossible to understand the history of Poland," the crowd burst into applause that lasted fully ten minutes, while spontaneous singing of the hymn Christ Conquers spread like a tidal wave...
...knows what will eventually come of John Paul's homecoming. Says Tadeusz Mazowiecki, editor of the Catholic monthly Wiez (The Link) and a founder of the flying university movement: "The Pope's visit will inject new energy into society. The masses will feel stronger; they will understand that they should demand more. These nine days will be a religious event, of course, but they will also shape the consciousness of the people." In other words, though the trip's intent is spiritual, its effects may be temporal as well...
...Imagine, if you will, a land in which carpetbaggers swarmed not for a decade or so but for millennia and you will come to understand just one aspect of a Poland stomped upon with metronomic tedium and regularity by the French, the Swedes, the Austrians, Prussians, Russians, and possessed by even such greedy incubuses as the Turks. Despoiled and exploited like the South, and like it, a poverty-ridden, agrarian, feudal society, Poland has shared with the Old South one bulwark against its immemorial humiliation, and that is pride. Pride and the recollection of vanished glories. Pride in ancestry...