Word: understand
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...doesn't take a public relations consultant to understand that this is not the way to the heart of the Average Voter. What made Bush endearing to so many voters was his superficial commonness, not a confession of highbrow pursuits. Republicans should have stuck to a proven formula: pork rinds and horseshoes...
Professor Blumenthal will understand, I hope, my dwelling for a moment on his occupation. As a Social Studies concentrator (the closest approximation I have to a job) I am responsible for understanding the intricate social relationships that underlie the received opinions of our society. This analytical proclivity explains my fascination with Professor Blumenthal's occupation, and my objections to the opinions I am receiving from...
Lest we, as the "youth" he addresses, assume that Professor Blumenthal has emerged from the perfectly passionate, if otherwise imperfect 1960s with a ready quotation and an even readier generalization, or that Professor Blumenthal stands ready to receive the eucharist of a "devoted, consuming,...human" love, I suggest we understand what his argument represents...
...innocence removed, we can now understand precisely what is implied in his associate professorship and the "certainlicense" of his 40th year. There is, to my mind, something inherently parental--or, anagramatically, paternal--about both the stature granted by his academic position and the stature concomitant with his age. His "certain license" is more a "certain censure" should we not take up his passionate lance. Nor would Professor Blumenthal want it any other...
Professor Blumenthal is wary when he laments the "deglandularization" of youth, that no one kisses "(dry or wet)," that we write Mac-poetry. He has reason to be so. Professor Blumenthal wants us to understand that he has thought this through, that this is wisdom, that this is reasoned. But if the youth of the '60s were "at-least-passionate," then the youth of the 1980s--my peers who watched the divorce rate among their parents skyrocket (at-least-passionate), who watched AIDS claim the lives of thousands (at-least-passionate), who came to view successful marriages as the exception...