Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said after the Forum meeting that he agreed with Richardson when he said that he thought that Watergate showed that things were going right in America. "The American public's outcry over Watergate is not understood by most foreigners; American indignation that these things are wrong shows that the nation is basically sound," he said...
Some of the feeling of malaise can be understood in light of the euphoria that followed the 1967 war. "Expectations were raised so rapidly," says Shlomo Avineri, a political scientist at Hebrew University, "that even a small setback in the standard of living creates a huge psychological adjustment...
...added attraction to newcomers, the libretto is translated from the German into English, so the weak plot can at least be understood. A rescue from a heathen harem may not be improbable, but the ending of the story is. The clever translation tightens the dialogue, and fits the comic intentions of the author. ("He is but an honest simple soul"/"His head belongs upon the pole...
...fantastic and pale as those of Vietnam, or of India--or of inner city slums. What for the people of the Soviet Union is a grim confirmation of an ever-present reality, is for us the exposure to a terror not immediately your own. Were Solzhenitsyn to be understood only as the impassioned chronicler of a unique and particular situation, we might without injury relegate him to the realm of specialists and consider his works primarily as manifestations of--and limited in relevance to--his own society, his own culture, his own structure of values and experience...
...lacquer from Japan, Korea and China. The rationale behind the collection, explains Dr. Sherman Lee, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, who frequently advised Rockefeller on what to buy, "is one that insists on the highest possible quality in the objects acquired and on their capacity to be understood and enjoyed by the interested layman." Included in the gift are some of the most striking South Indian bronzes and stone carvings of the 8th to 11th centuries left in private hands, such as a 10th-llth century figure of Krishna dancing on the hood of the cobra-demon Kaliya...