Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gravity's Rainbow, which is V. squared and 49 cubed. It is a funny, disturbing, exhausting and massive novel, mind-fogging in its range and permutations, its display of knowledge and virtuosity-a metaphysical, phenomenological, technological Mad Comic. The author seems to have read and understood everything from quantum mechanics, probability theory and engineering manuals to the labels on bottles of 1920 Schloss Vollrads, Tarot cards and rock lyrics. This, and much more, Pynchon catalogues and tickles into fantasies so elaborately detailed that most of his readers will come away feeling illiterate in the terms of the 20th century...
...efficient use of scarce resources in the production of material goods. The tools of this analysis are powerful even though they have been developed as part of a formal system which involves severely restricted assumptions regarding both human behavior and aspirations. Yet they are useful and must be understood (independent of the particular economic system which applies) to deal effectively with what remains the major preoccupation of the larger part of mankind (though not of the Harvard community)--namely, to secure an adequate material existence. At the same time, I join with the critics in urging that a larger view...
...audience that the Russians would finally back down. His talks with Chinese officials, including Premier Chou Enlai, persuaded him that Peking's policy must be seen in the light of the threat they perceive across the Russian border. He conceded that his "rather gloomy view" is not understood in the U.S. "The New York Times view of the world," Alsop archly observed, "doesn't include the possibility of such as I have outlined, but Mr. Chou En-lai very definitely does. So one of them is obviously crazy...
MORAL OUTRAGE at foreign policy was only one of the causes of mass antiwar student protest. This protest must also be understood within the greater context of the general rebelliousness of the '60s. Antiwar protest was thus most important as the major outlet for expressing disaffection...
...First of all, let me say that I understood perfectly the restrictions of the job before I came here and that I agree with Harvard's policies all the way," he noted...