Word: understands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People can't understand that you can study filmmakers like Welles, John Ford, Renoir and Bergman the way you can study Tolstoy, Whitman and Shakespeare. Students have a difficult time accepting film as anything more than entertainment or communication. Imagine if a professor in the Music department had to spend a semester convincing students that there is a difference between popular music and music...
...understand Vlada Petric's vision of cinema, it is useful to cite and examine specific films. When I venture to say that Lina Wertmueller's Seven Beauties is among my favorite films, he characterizes her as "an interesting but unimportant filmmaker, a kind of Jacqueline Susanne of the cinema" who "entertains bourgeoise intellectuals on a slightly higher level than junk. In Seven Beauties the cinematic structure and forms that she chose don't correspond to the narrative and ideological substance. That content is superficially conceived she treated the dramatic concept without artistic depth." He then points out that we have...
Over the next year, Hirsch will employ eleven graduate students who will rewrite a series of student papers and supposedly make them easier to understand. The original papers and the rewrites will then be given to separate groups of readers who will be timed on how fast they read the two versions. "A text's intrinsic effectiveness is the proportion between its effectiveness and that of a synonymous version which is optimally effective," says Hirsch. "Effectiveness is in turn defined as an inverse measure of reader effort." In more readable terms, the less time it takes someone to read...
...ways. This is the importance of his job as head of the U.W.C., which will enable him to meet people from every country, some of them very dark, and actually get things done for them. Charles is completely and absolutely devoid of color prejudice. He just can't understand what the prejudices can be about...
...very tired." The President and Mrs. Carter chose instead to spend the weekend at Camp David. Vice President Walter Mondale was on an eleven-day trip to five foreign countries. One Carter associate who did attend, Gerald Rafshoon, said raffishly: "Why, I just don't understand why the President wouldn't want to be in the sun, resting, playing tennis and relaxing when he could be here...