Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miss America has found it politically fit to patronize us, sweetly stating that going with a beatnik would be a rich experience. Ha!" Mortimer unleashed his usually docile imagination to understand better the enormity of the crisis...
Your Sept. 7 article on Governor-elect Barnett displayed the same one-sided, prejudiced, narrow-minded view that characterized the campaign. We do not ask you to excuse us, only seek to understand us, and write about us with intelligence and objectivity. Being a liberal here is hard enough without articles and attitudes that display the same bitterness we are fighting...
...answer, or the excuse "I really haven't had time to read up on this yet." It is assumed they don't think for themselves about religion. Certainly at some point the individual's act of faith becomes a distinguishing factor--Credo ut intelligam, I believe that I might understand--but up to this point explanation is surely possible, and for that matter so is defense. Fifteen of the Catholics questioned had periods of reaction against Catholicism; some at least of the others have examined their religious beliefs from their vantage point in college. The examination of one's beliefs...
...nothing can be affirmed about Him, everything may be said of Him, as Tillich notes, and everything one says will have symbolic truth. It requires, of course, an extremely sensitive and intense mind to immerse oneself so thoroughly in the aspect of God one chooses that one may understand Him and render Him meaningful in one's existence...
...dangerous than ever before, and as a mode of operation, policy-by-experimentation is less feasible. Thirdly, as the magnitude of political problems multiplies, the authority responsible for their solution becomes progressively concentrated. Faced with complex, crucial issues, and an imposing, impersonal government, students are at a loss to understand how they...