Word: understands
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Speaker O'Neill contends that the President does not truly understand the independent mood of the present Congress. Carter insists he does. But the President says he is not going to stand for the traditional inclinations of Congress to juggle figures. Said Carter: "There is a new kind of political leader, not only in the White House but in the Congress itself. They do not depend on a Speaker, or the Democratic Party, or a presidential candidate to help put them in office. I think this is one reason we are much more likely to see success in November...
Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, said yesterday he disapproves of the decision, but said he could understand the Supreme Court's reasoning. "It is arbitrary, but justified; there are only a limited number of airways for radio and T.V. communication, whereas there is theoretically an unlimited supply of newspapers...
...Unmarried Woman--For some reason, a lot of critics went beserk over this film, praising it from here to Kokomo as a major advance and a triumph for director Paul Mazursky, who brought us Next Stop, Greenwich Village a few years ago. We can't understand why anyone likes this insipid tale of a hip New York couple that hits the skids for no apparent reason. Jill Clayburgh is appealing but not too good as the put-upon protagonist who is suddenly forced to restructure her shattered life. All in all, An Unmarried Woman presents a shallow and almost unbelievably...
...Watergate erupted just as White was completing his study of the 1972 race. Thus, even as he began work on the next volume in that series, he found himself increasingly disturbed by what he saw as his failure to understand fully the connections between politics and power, his inability to answer that most vexing of questions: "What's it really all about?" So he set aside The Making of the President, 1976 (he hopes to complete his presidential series in 1981) to write what he calls neither an autobiography nor a political history but "a long essay...
...between military and civilians. MacArthur understood the politics of Asia, and not only in his legacy to Japan but in his parting admonition to his successors ("Anybody who commits the land power of the United States on the continent of Asia ought to have his head examined") demonstrated this understanding. What he could not understand were the politics of America. He was convinced that the military and the political executives were co-proprietors of American history, equal partners in the great adventures...