Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iacocca can understand why Wisconsin is called the Badger State. Its citizens and Governor Tommy Thompson have been in an uproar since Chrysler decided in January to shut down an 86-year-old assembly plant in Kenosha, which would put 5,500 employees out of work. Last week Iacocca offered a peace plan: a $20 million education-and-housing fund for the workers, to be financed by profits from new Chrysler vehicles sold in Wisconsin this year. Meeting with Thompson in Washington, Iacocca said he would consider keeping the plant open a few weeks or months longer than its planned...
...when looking at a galaxy known as M82. Their "eyeball," the spectrograph, is supposed to analyze light that has passed through the telescope, pick out energy in the deep red frequencies coming from the galaxy, and display it on a television screen in symbols that may help the Riekes understand what is going on out there. Deep red light passes through galactic dust more easily than most other colors, and the Riekes are hoping to use the telescope and the spectrograph to penetrate the dust obscuring what they believe is a nursery of new stars. Explains Marcia Rieke: "This galaxy...
...rarely equaled since." Yet Athenian democracy also put Socrates on trial for speaking his mind and voted to execute him for his "crimes." This horrified Stone, and, he writes, "shook my Jeffersonian faith in the common man." The Trial of Socrates is the result of his effort to understand, if not excuse, how Athens could have besmirched its good name and that of democracy by killing Socrates...
...lover of the much-maligned great books. It can only help to have a writer with Stone's verve bring the ancient texts and characters to life and demonstrate how the classic writers of Athens speak to us today. Athens "is our yesterday," he writes, "and we cannot understand ourselves without...
Bloom obviously is on target with much of his criticism. At the very least, he certainly has struck a resonant chord among "the many" who have purchased his book. Yet his tenuous relationship with democracy is perhaps best captured in his failure to understand the importance of the democratizing role played by universities, especially the Ivies, in postwar American society...