Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reduced to its simplest form, Soviet morality is a negative morality best understood in terms of the rape of Berlin and the maiming of Budapest...
...foreign ministers to examine the "grave situation" in the Caribbean "on a broad front." Dreier recalled that in three months the OAS had met twice before to study threats to peace (in Panama and Nicaragua), and that dealing with each squall as it broke out was "futile." Understood but unsaid: that the trouble will continue as long as Castro keeps exporting revolution. And, Dreier warned, "Communists have attempted, and with some success, to infiltrate those revolutionary movements...
...newspaper Al Ahram. "When the tide of aggression receded from our land, this was the first thing that came to my view: the time had come for real revolutionary action." Nasser confessed that when he came to power in 1952, his revolutionary group of army officers had not fully understood what they were working for. But after the Suez invasion, said he, they saw clearly that the job was to create a wholly new "cooperative socialist and democratic society." In the "radical change" about to begin, announced Nasser, the United Arab Republic will double its national income, eliminate strife between...
Sorbonne Philosophy Professor Jean Guitton rushed to the front page of Le Figaro to cry shame, because "the oral, properly understood, is a delicious moment." Guitton fondly recalled questions from his own orals ("Monsieur, what was the color of pigs in Homer's day?"), remembered his anti-French error of telling his examiners that brainy men complement each other ("No, Monsieur. When intelligences are united, they subtract from each other"). Warmly supporting Guitton in defense of the oral. Author Paul ( The Innocent Tenant) Guth wrote: "In a world more and more dedicated to the quantitative, the oral...
...magnificent Portrait of Cardinal Nino de Guevara and the unique View of Toledo. The Cardinal keeps all the bloom of the painter's passion, but Toledo has suffered and so has the fabulous new Vision. One New York critic complained that the Metropolitan's restorers had understood "El Greco in terms of 20th century expressionism...