Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...annual report of the University Health Services, Warren E.C. Wacker, director of the UHS, explains that increases or decreases in utilization of the psychiatric service can never be fully understood: "Probably no change, whether it be up or down, is of special significance unless it takes form as a definite pattern for at least an academic generation. When this will occur is a matter of speculation, but when it does, it will have happened without apparent cause...
Indeed, both Betty Ford and Happy Rockefeller faced their terrifying illnesses with remarkable poise. Their examples should help thousands of others to overcome quite natural fears, and to learn the facts about a serious and little understood disease that once was discussed only in whispers...
...discussion with Mr. Butter, I stressed two factory: 1) that the social paradigm of black life was really a quest for a familiar social existence which I understood but regretted since in my view racial integration produces a richer and more varied life. In particular, such integration contains the possibility that in most situations one can forget that one is black or white. 2) The core of my argument was that black students had to strike a balance between three elements: a sense of respect for their racial and cultural heritage, broad participation in the social, cultural, and intellectual mainstream...
...major painters in the German romantic movement. The issue then, as posed by the philosopher Friedrich Schlegel, was straightforward: "Do not animals, stones, plants, stars and breezes also belong with mankind, which is merely a central meeting point of countless varied threads? Can mankind be understood divorced from nature, and is it so very different from other manifestations of nature?" This, the key question of the romantic sensibility then as of ecology now, was Friedrich's obsession. He pursued it through a full gamut of subject -from beetling ice crags and the white chalk abysses of Rugen Island down...
Early in his life, Patton spoke of winning a war so that the grateful nation would invite him home as a dictator. Eventually he understood that he was not suited for politics, but maybe it is just as well, as he did not return from the wars. He might not have known what to do with peacetime, and the nation might not have known what to do with Gorgeous George. ∙Lance Morrow