Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came back to me in the course of this. I remember one time someone in a speech or something said that if General Motors decided today that discrimination was bad for business, tomorrow there would be no discrimination. I thought that's right. I had never, of course, understood why General Motors did not stand up and say that discrimination is no good for business. My studies showed me that it was essential that the racism continue in order for business to be successful. Because the necessity for people at the bottom to keep wages depressed...
Perhaps, as Allen and many others say in the book, no one ever really knew Joe DiMaggio. Even Marilyn never understood what it meant to be DiMaggio. Story goes that is 1954, when Marilyn returned from entertaining troops in Korea, she said to DiMag, "Joe, you've never heard such cheering." DiMaggio replied softly, "Yes I have...
...avoid being superfluous, Rosenstone would have to provide some sort of framework within which Reed's drive to participate in these events could be understood. Rosenstone, however, fails to do this. In his preface, he declares himself against imposing "any full blown psychological theory" on Reed's life and says he will instead use "my own understanding of how and why men act." What this "understanding" consists of, however, is never elaborated. Rosenstone is content to make vague generalizations about "men of Reed's generation" and "the nature of modern society...
Igor Stravinsky would have understood that. He would have seen what has escaped some astigmatic commentators, who believe that the miracle of this machine ends with the nipples newly added to the traditional, full-breasted women painted on the backboard. One might as well claim that all the seminal force of Le Sacre lies in Stravinsky's instructions to the ten French horns, playing triple-forte at the piece's climax, to aim their bells up in the air. That was a magnificent gesture, but--and the same is true of the bold, star-spangled nipples on Wizard...
Ginn said yesterday that he understood that the Athletic Department was on an austerity budget. "I simply object to their priorities," he said...