Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hurting his mother he is only trying to end his dependence on her; that the pain he inflicts on her is a measure of the fear he feels that he may fail to become a man. At every point the relationship between mother and growing boy is exactly understood and poignantly expressed. Because of her great love and understanding, she does not tell her son that she is ill and that if she gives him money to go to college, she cannot afford to cure herself. She is strong enough to let him go; he is strong enough to leave...
...more sophisticated, they are no less brilliant and effective. What is perhaps most striking to the Western observer is the profoundly Asiatic quality of the moviemaker's genius. He suffers passionately with his characters, and yet all the while remains curiously calm and almost indifferent, as though he understood that life must ultimately find its meaning and its peace in something larger than life...
...plans take into account the possibility that the City may decide to widen Boylston Street on its west side. If Boylston were widened, it is understood that the University would favor depressing the street below ground level so that a ramp could be built across...
...Spinoza understood because of all that suffering he went through in-where was it?-Rotterdam...
...understood that Miss McKenna rejected opportunities to perform at other summer festivals and that she chose Boston out of affection for the site of her earlier successes...