Word: understood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friend and as a follower, to be faithful to him as I knew him and understood his creed, I must take upon myself the unhappy responsibility or at least the risk, of marring the effusive and superficial, but very official, harmony which has wet-blanketed our country since that day in Memphis not yet a week...
...this means, in essence, is that a commitment to love in worldly life cannot be separated from faith in Christ, who demanded that commitment. One argument against trying to build Christianity on moral action alone is that Jesus' teachings, unlike those of, say, Confucius, make sense only when understood as counsels of perfection in obedience to God rather than as workable guidelines of behavior. The Rev. David H. C. Read, pastor of Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, points out that in facing many problems of life the behavior of the Christian and the humanist might well...
Last Monday night, Mrs. Warren P. Knowles, wife of the state's Republican Governor, attended a McCarthy rally in Madison. Postmaster General Lawrence F. O'Brien denounced her for doing this, and said he "understood" that she was "busily engaged" in promoting a cross-over. Mrs. Knowles was not available for comment...
Miss Bodian says that no one, Shaw students or tutors, completely understood the tension that was building, but that it was the Shaw students who first gave it expression. Not only did the Shaw students know and understand the tension, but they did everything in their power to bring this tension to the surface and express it without offending the white tutors. That tension which was felt and understood was not only viable then but as James Baldwin once uttered cryptically, "Every Negro American risks having the gates of paranoia close on him." It was indeed the paranoia which...
THERE was a reason for our being at Shaw that we didn't know at the time, a reason that had nothing to do with tutoring. If we had understood it earlier we might have understood Shaw...