Word: understands
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...stopped by the mansion that until last week had served as Wojtyla's home, and found its nuns and priests hospitable-an opportunity he quickly seized. "I still speak Polish," Wierzynski says, "which was an enormous help in conducting interviews and getting around. It also helped me understand and share the emotion of the Poles as they talked about their-our-Pope. Poland is a stubbornly proud and patriotic country, and no greater recognition can come to this nation than to have one of its own made Bishop of Rome. More than once, I felt tears well...
...supervise strategy. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal wanted to wait until January in order to give the Administration time to establish a more comprehensive program. Congressional Liaison Frank Moore urged that the program be started well ahead of the elections so that the voters would have an opportunity to understand the plan's complex provisions before they go to the polls. "No one will make a decision," complained one White House economist. Jordan sided with Moore. He instructed Jerry Rafshoon to arrange a TV special for the announcement of the new program. There had been talk of Carter giving another...
...room and scornfully waved his hand at the Vatican vista outside the window. "All that?all that imperial paraphernalia. All that isolation of the Pope. All that medieval remoteness and inheritance that makes Europeans think that the church is only Western. All that tightness that makes them fail to understand that young countries like mine want something different. They want simplicity. They want Jesus Christ. All that, all that must change." Fifty hours later, Karol Wojtyla stepped into the fisherman's shoes and, in incalculable ways, perhaps the change has begun...
...unlike earlier meetings, when most council members were depressed by what they saw as Jimmy Carter's aloofness to them, White House emissaries found the atmosphere generally friendly. Said General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones, who often visits the White House for private chats with President Carter: "Government officials understand problems a lot better than a year ago. The Administration is now more open-minded...
CLIFFORD WOODWORTH as Mr. Peachum seems to understand Brecht better, and his operatic voice adds to his performance. It was a shame to see him have to glance up at the conductor (Paul D. Lehrman) in confusion as the musical ensemble fell apart during the finale to Act I. From the opening bars of the overture, Lehrman takes the score at a gallop. He doesn't give the music the time it needs to fester, to spread its fumes; more importantly, the singers couldn't keep up with the pace. (If you want to hear Weill's music...