Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...justice that the Iranians agree to. He should be tried not so he can be punished and executed, but so that the crimes and atrocities committed during his reign can be exposed to the eyes of the world. Only then can his reign against his own people be understood...
Darkness Visible, By William Golding. (Farrar, Straus Giroux, $10.95): Last time you read Golding you were in sixth grade: Teacher handed you Lord of the Flies; you read it, you staggered, and understood why the bully relished slamming the seesaw over your head during recess. You self-pityingly gazed in the mirror, shook your head and whispered "Piggy...
...judge their words and meanings and their resolve. He is the only person with the power, the information and the duty to judge that moment when the interests of the U.S. and the free world weigh more heavily than the safety of the hostages. It is an awesome responsibility, understood only...
Flanked by his Cabinet, South Africa's Prime Minister P.W. Botha, 63, stood up in a hall in Johannesburg last week and made an unprecedented appeal. His basic goal was unstated but well understood by his audience of 250 English-speaking businessmen, who have long dominated South Africa's economic life. Botha outlined a new policy that would end the harsher restrictions of apartheid, South Africa's all-encompassing system of racial laws, and provide fresh economic opportunities by allowing corporations to employ the country's blacks in heretofore restricted jobs. Political power, of course, would...
...Flute, always cited as the best-realized opera film prior to Don Giovanni, neatly sidestepped all the conceptual problems of the hybrid genre--it pretended to be a filmed record of a performance in a provincial opera house, with shots of the audience thrown in to be sure you understood the universality of Mozart's message. Losey never wavers from his no-holds-barred outdoors staging, using the Palladio villas near Vicenza as an occasional refuge from the bright sun that over-exposes many of the scenes...