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Word: understands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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FASTEN SEAT BELTS PLEASE. The light blinks on overhead, we sink into our seats and careen off into the wild blue '80s. And it becomes harder and harder to analyze and thus understand the slothful indulgences and psychotic tendencies of that great unruly beast, the American Imperium. Our best writers have tried--and mostly failed--Pynchon, with the wondrous Gravity's Rainbow, a critical mass of incendiary pages, and McGuane, with his taut vision of love and death in the Florida Keys, 92 in the Shade. No wonder there is so much yearning for that time of the superego...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Laughter, Loneliness and Sex | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...schools are academic people--and these other kind of people--the poets, are not academic people--they're--they're really against what the academic people do--they are people who--who discover things for themselves, who burst through and make another world--and the academic people cannot understand them--so that's why whey the academic people say about them is--is not much good...

Author: By Payne L. Templeton, | Title: The Editor of Genius | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...Perhaps no one else on the ship could understand why Shelley and I felt such a deep surge of excitement. We were back in China. Like nearly everyone else who has lived there, we felt it was a delight to return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 23, 1978 | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...taxes without cutting services, and I want to know what services are going to be cut." The still untested Kemp-Roth theory may prove to be reasonably correct, but G.O.P. Congressman John Anderson of Illinois sardonically admits: "The average voter does not understand how the Laffer curve works, and neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tax-Slashing Campaign | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...agreed to majority rule for the breakaway British colony within two years; in return, the U.S. and Britain would recognize the legitimacy of his government and end the United Nations sanctions that have plagued Rhodesia's economy since 1966. "Our case is watertight," said Smith. "We cannot understand what is wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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