Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home, he manfully wages war not so much with the floundering Democrats as with a more dangerously hostile press, "which claimed it understood and spoke for the people better than he did himself." For years a critic of Nixonian hatchet politics, White has grown increasingly sympathetic to the now quieter Nixon style. Proudly and yet often painfully aware that he was "essentially alone" in everything he did, White writes, Nixon developed a remarkable "fatalism of outlook and a personal melancholy which added wisdom to his reflections...
...interpretation and no conflict with existing beliefs. Most importantly, there is the daily reinforcement of meditation--the experience of the Divine Light, which claims no intellectual content, and therefore cannot be challenged by the intellect. Maharaj Ji likens the receiving of knowledge to a pinch--something that cannot be understood until it is experienced...
...corner Ashe jokes with two pot bellied bearded black men. When they leave he sits silent beside his blonde wife. It is understood between them that there is to be no talk. Ashe is 30 now, and he is waiting to play his semifinal against Graebner. He has played Graebner maybe 100 times - they grew up together. They've got 11 years more experience behind them than Connors or Stockton, and they have played a whole history on the revolving wheel that Connors and Stockton have just begun to ride. Ashe looks distant, self-absorbed, steeling himself to concentration. After...
Much of the police skepticism vanished when the boy's mother received his letter and two phone calls, apparently from one of the kidnapers. "At first I thought it might be a stupid joke," she said, "but then I understood it was serious." To prove that the kidnaping was not a hoax, the caller said he would send the mother one of her son's fingers. Grandfather Getty, meanwhile, said that he would not pay a ransom. Although he sees his grandson infrequently and is not particularly close to him, Getty said he loves him nonetheless. Yet love...
...extent that multiple personalities are understood, it seems that Sybil's mind began creating alternative personages as a defense against her mother, who was a sadistic, child-battering schizophrenic. Brilliant (with an IQ of 170), yet mousy and depleted, Sybil finally embarked on psychoanalysis. Her doctor never quite knew which of her 16 personalities would turn up. After she underwent eleven years of analysis, treatments with sodium pentothal and hypnosis, the tribe of various selves merged into one coherent Sybil...