Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Loreen D. Costa '90, who accompanied Abrams to the fair, says, "I don't know if the energy is something outside of us, or within us, but I'm trying harder to understand...
Driver Michael Seguenza said a cabbies' organization is forming in response to the treatment they have received at past council hearings "You never understand the value of a fire extinguisher until you get burnt, and this year we got burnt," he said...
...world. At the moment, Morricone is in the throes of scoring Brian DePalma's upcoming The Untouchables. He works nine-hour stretches almost daily, in part because he is perpetually plagued by the question " 'Will I write again tomorrow?' Whoever says I write too much music doesn't understand that there is a deep necessity. When a composer writes little, he starts being afraid...
...Mission echo the choral medievalism of a Carl Orff war-horse: "There is nothing in The Mission that reminds one of Carmina Burana! When people hear the choir singing out loud and staccato, they believe that is Carmina Burana, but they are deaf people who don't understand!" But no excuses are really necessary for his music. He may, right now, be the best orchestral film composer in the world, and it does not take a mother's pride to think so. With a little luck, she may be right about the timing...
...their correspondingly contrasting views of such basic political concepts as equality or justice, the constrained and unconstrained not only differ from each other but differ so widely that they can hardly understand each other; they use the same words to mean completely different things. "Both visions believe in rights," Sowell says. "But rights as conceived in the unconstrained vision are virtually a negation of rights as conceived in the constrained vision." The constrained vision supports equality of opportunity, for example; the unconstrained judges equality not by opportunity but by results. Hence the emotional arguments over such issues as affirmative action...