Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Friday, Oct. 5, Agnew gave the word to reopen the negotiations to Judah Best, his Washington lawyer. Best immediately got in touch again with Fred Buzhardt, who was in Key Biscayne. Both men are fond of direct action and short, pungent phrases, and they understood each other completely. Buzhardt was definitely interested in talking. That night Best grabbed a plane to Florida and the two men met in a Miami motel in the predawn hours. Their approach was simple: let's get off dead center-the country requires that something be done. After their talk, Buzhardt called the Justice...
...country with a mixture of U.S. and Communist influences could have understood issues from both sides and could have been of invaluable diplomatic use. President Nixon should have done everything he could to help Chile's Marxist "experiment" succeed...
...reduce it. At best this swiftly consummated reduction is to a series of archetypes; at worst it is to a series of simplistic stereotypes." Disney's use of fine-art images usually came down to stereotype, for it worried him not to have things clear-cut. He understood business but not richness, which is why the interiors and garden sequences of the prince's castle in Cinderella came out with the nasty polystyrene glamour (twinkledust and all) of the Fontainebleau lobby in Miami Beach...
...people in the world today, however, cannot afford to be philosophers. They are preoccupied by more immediate problems--problems which can be understood and resolved without any recourse to an ethereal metaphysics. Vietnamese peasants were distraught in the 1930s not because they wondered if Victor Hugo was a deity, but because French colonialism was destroying their traditional society. American young people today are not confused because they find it difficult to choose between the merits of the Guru and the Yogi, but because this country is rocked by a deep structural and ideological crisis, a crisis for which no group...
...Fidel. I was in Cuba when it appeared, and in the dedication, he wrote the following. "To Salvador Allende, who by other means tries to obtain the same ends. If comandante Guevara signed the dedication in this way, it is because he was a man of broad spirit who understood that every nation has its own reality; that there is no recipe to make revolutions. And in addition, the theoreticians of Marxism--and I declare that I am an apprentice only, but I do not deny the fact that I am a Marxist--also show with clarity the different ways...