Word: understood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reimagines--a biography enacted within a formula: Darwinism + Leninism = Stalinism. The tough little Georgian survivor, emerging from the Tiflis seminary as a militant atheist, took up petty crime and apprenticed himself not only to Vladimir Ilyich but also to "my hero, my model, my rival," Ivan the Terrible: "Ivan understood the great secret: Cruelty is the cutting edge of history. The deciding factor is always the greatest degree of cruelty most intelligently applied...
...first-year, I don't think I understood the magnitude of that change. I had studied hard for four years in high school, and I had deferred life for a bit, postponing the usual adolescent sagas until there was something or someone really worth my love and my pain. It wasn't until I came to college that people finally bothered to lie to me, or bothered to entrust me with their private truths--to tell me anything that mattered to them, in fact. It wasn't until I came to college that I began caring about people enough...
...financing of the Institute was agreed uponearly. Harvard understood it would have tocontribute a large sum--the final tally was $150million--to launch the Institute properly...
...immediately wrote to Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox Jr. '59 by e-mail, asking him to explain what I was supposed to have understood by the designation of Professor Friend's letter to me as "Personal and Confidential." Fox's reply is instructive: "I marked the e-mail and letter confidential and/or personal in order to protect you from someone else inadvertently opening or reading something which was addressed...
...immediately wrote to Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox Jr. '59 by e-mail, asking him to explain what I was supposed to have understood by the designation of Professor Friend's letter to me as "Personal and Confidential." Fox's reply is instructive: "I marked the e-mail and letter confidential and/or personal in order to protect you from someone else inadvertently opening or reading something which was addressed...