Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anti-Semitism," so there is clearly something in Buddy's dervish anxiety to succeed that rubs people the wrong way. It can be said, too, in favor of this sharp, funny movie that Buddy's desperate acquisitiveness is not sentimentalized or apologized for. It is only well understood...
When the young Roman Republic found itself dominating the world, it became clear that its traditional political system, moral code and institutions were not working properly. Julius Caesar understood this and wanted to act accordingly. That was his genius and his tragedy. Brutus was an honorable man, trying blindly to preserve the virtues of yesterday. When his dagger ended Caesar's vision, inadequate concepts and institutions were partly preserved, contributing to Rome's decadence and fall...
...Their loyalty, and the loyalty of the others who stood around Nixon, had to be lifted beyond that one personality. It had to be fixed on the office of the President, on the United States of America. Nixon somehow had to be shepherded through the ordeal so that he understood and would not ravage himself even more in futile resistance...
...year contract, including eleven weeks of paid leave. For this, the Post asked the printers to permit unlimited automation and give up bogus. The union has yet to respond. At the Chicago Tribune, where contract talks with the printers should begin this fall, it is understood that both parties will be influenced by the settlement reached in New York...
...reads Mill today. If people did, Himmelfarb warns, they would discover a man who is often in contradiction with Harriet's Mill, the author of On Liberty. This other Mill spoke suspiciously of the "desires and impulses" and the "natural feeling" that the Liberty Mill so glorified. Mill understood that human nature was so far from naturally good that the ultimate object of education should be "restraining discipline." The man to whom conformity, obedience and even law were dirty words could demand, in another mood, the retention of capital punishment and call for a penal code "strengthening our punishments...