Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ability to view power relationships unencumbered by ideology. Several former students remarked that Kissinger had no apparent heroes, and that his supposed admiration for Metternich has been considerably exaggerated. Some Asian and Middle Eastern students criticize him on the grounds that he viewed the world in European terms and understood little about the Third World...
...Kilson's analysis and the banality of his critics. This delineation is not done simply to suggest that the "truth" of the matter lies in some mystical synthesis, but rather that the level of the present dialogue must be elevated if the issues are to be more fully understood...
...functional/existential dualism in black culture and thus, ironically, provide tacit admission to the strength of Kilson's position. They intuitively sense the lack of the existential dimension in his analysis, but they fail to analytically account for it. Why? Because the functional dimension of culture cannot be analytically understood solely from the existential perspective--such is the gift of only poets and artists. It is no surprise that Kilson's critics mistake his functionalist cultural assertions to be existential ones...
...actors, says Redford, were very much aware that Paramount was trying to steamroll a superhit and that they were expected to cooperate with the game plan by producing superhit performances. If the picture flopped, Redford understood only too well, "there would be a lot of whisperings about how Redford was wrong for the Gatsby role...
...children, he found, could be best understood by first speaking with the grandparents. What they believe, the children will soon believe. Parents are the go-betweens, handing down beliefs from the very old to the very young. In sharp contrast to the current American preoccupation with youth, this elderly population revels in its years. The sagacity of age is valued more than the vivacity of youth. Psychologists often depict these people as brutalized by modern America and robbed of their self-esteem, but these Hispanic-Americans feel that they are emminently important human beings, worthy of the love, respect...