Word: understood
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...Wotan) -were few and far between. But by Die Walkure, diction and audience comprehension had picked up considerably. How does the composer himself feel? Almost everyone who has ever gone on record about the matter, including Wagner, Verdi and Puccini, speaks desperately of his desire to have his words understood, in whatever language...
...American promise involves a conflict over self-interest. As Author-Editor Irving Kristol has pointed out, the founders' basic idea was that the pursuit of every man's self-interest was the most reliable motivation on which to build a political system, provided it was "rightly understood" and curbed by political checks and balances. The concept also required a measure of "civic virtue" or "republican morality," which meant a willingness to suspend the pursuit of immediate self-interest to act for the common good. This may always have been more of an ideal than a fact. But today...
...change?in prices, profits, technology, consumer tastes. In fact, its intellectual history begins with Adam Smith's effort to explain why and how the natural instincts and capabilities of free men cause economies to change and progress. All this is worthy of being recalled today because it remains little understood...
...Giancana understood such methods; he had employed them himself in the days when, known to his friends as "Mooney" or "Momo," he ran the Chicago underworld. His rise in the crime organization built by Al Capone began in his teens on Chicago's West Side, where he was born in 1908, the son of an immigrant grocer. A grade-school dropout, he joined the Chicago Mob as a wheelman, or getaway driver, then graduated to triggerman. Convicted of moonshining in 1939, he managed to turn his four-year sentence to his advantage by cultivating the friendship of Edward Jones...
Since the real shark is about 16 ft. long, and the fictional great white in Jaws no less than 24, Rizzo's diminutive height would make the real fish look bigger. Rizzo understood all this. He did not count, however, on the fervor of the great white. Beginning his first descent, he watched one shark attack the Taylors' boat. Vexed, it sideswiped Rizzo, ripped his cage from its cable and took it to the bottom. Carl shot out of the water and headed for cover...