Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rabbi Hertzberg [who urged peaceful theological coexistence between Christians and Jews-Sept. 28] apparently does not understand Christianity, as regrettably many Christians do not. There can never be any proper relaxation of missionary zeal for the church. For the Christian, Christ comes first and martyrdom is preferable to compromise...
...same time the people who were already in the city "find their own customs and way of life under the pressure of strangers they do not understand. They fear the threat to their own values. This is the fear that is reflected in the gradual creation of a stereotype of the Puerto Rican as criminal...
...NDEA for local school employees; under sections of the Act pertaining to guidance and foreign language training, the jobs of people hired by local school boards can become dependent upon willingness to sign the loyalty affidavit. "NDEA is not only a University problem," Barnes says, "and Cambridge citizens should understand how this obnoxious loyalty provision can apply to their schools...
...more than likely that he did not understand himself. Writing his Memoirs, near 70, he wryly discussed the illness "which the Italians call mal français." Wrote he, sounding puzzled: "The greatest part of my life was spent in trying to make myself ill, and when I had succeeded, in trying to recover my health. [Now] age, that cruel and unavoidable disease, compels me to be in good health in spite of myself...
Eliot's memorable "when the evening is spread out against the sky/ Like a patient etherised upon a table." But such instances of point-to-point similarity are rare. A Westerner can perhaps best understand Boris Pasternak's revolutionary impact on Russian verse within the historic Russian context...