Word: understands
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...stressed however, the greater importance he places on the upcoming review of graduate education. "I understand that students want to discuss problems with their immediate day to day life, but as dean, I feel a responsibility to focus on the longer range issues," he said...
...write notes. But I understand that Secretary Vance took notes, that the President took notes. But we compare notes in our memories as well. I come to Jerusalem. There the sky is blue and memory becomes clear...
...they want renegotiation, they should understand that everything's up for grabs--wage settlements, retroactivity, everything," he added...
...first six months on the job, Gicquel recalls, he was only an actor playing the role of anchorman. "I must have seemed a bit awkward," he admits, "like I was wearing my Sunday suit." But, "little by little, I began to understand that it was necessary only to be like I really was." Much of Gicquel's appeal seems to lie in a kind of Gallic avuncular gloom, and an ability to register an appropriate flicker of sorrow, anger, levity or weariness in reaction to whatever news he is reading-the same reactions that viewers presumably are having...
...treatment of the romances between Tristram and Isold, Launcelot and Guinevere reads like a medieval version of Couples. Querulous and selfabsorbed, the lovers are made to suffer the mutual incomprehension of male chauvinists and radical feminists. "Being a woman," the author says of Guinevere, "she could not understand honor and justice, for they were invented by men." The code of chivalry is resurrected in the form of propaganda. Berger is given to writing didactic speeches, and his digressions about good and evil, appropriate for the allegorical literature of the Middle Ages, seem tedious in a contemporary novel...