Word: understands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series of attacks suggested that the P.L.O. intends to wipe out Abu Nidal and strike back at the Iraqi regime that supports him. "If someone pulls out your eye, pull out both his eyes," said Arafat in authorizing the hit teams. "This is the only language these people will understand...
...University came next, after Stoltzman was rejected by Eastman School of Music and Juilliard. At Ohio he majored in math and music, and even considered a career in dentistry. "I still thought that classical music was somebody sitting in a symphony and playing things that you didn't understand," says Stoltzman. But after some lessons with Clarinetist Robert Marcellus of the Cleveland Orchestra, he decided on graduate work in music at Yale...
...here they do in spades. Belushi's wide eyes take in one gorgeous nude body after another as the girls engage in pillow fights and unmentionable other acts. Yet there is nothing sordid about his voyeurism; it seems almost pure. That is because the Lampoon people understand the darkest secret of an American college education: one of the noblest reasons to go is to spend four years studying sex. -Frank Rich
Walker combines the oldtime lobbying techniques of banter and booze with an ability to explain complex issues on the back of an envelope. Jerry Ford once wrote him: "You can explain economics so that even somebody's mother-in-law can understand...
...this sense, self-sacrifice is precisely and generously to one's own advantage. One need not play Maoist work songs (in China, they've got to do it, which is not volunteering) to understand the social advantages of work voluntarily done for the good of other individuals, the group as a whole and, ultimately, one self. The benefits of volunteering can be entirely practical for the volunteer, of course: a person might, for example, learn much about becoming a professional librarian through volunteer work. But it is in the nature of things that the ultimate good of volunteering...