Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that we should not be considered foreigners, and that we should have the right to keep our forces there for our self-defense. I want to be able to go with my children and grandchildren to Jericho even as [West Bank Arabs] go to Natanya [in Israel]. The Arabs understand this. When the Egyptian delegation was here, they asked us to take them to the Horns of Hattin, where the Crusaders were defeated by Saladin. I can see their point...
Written as a novel in 1946, Beckett's Mercier and Camier is stillborn in its transition to drama at Joseph Papp's Green wich Village Public Theater. One can understand what impelled Adapter Neumann's strenuous and occasionally imaginative effort, since the book was, essentially, Waiting for Godot in its earliest and distinctly embryonic state. The two title characters (Frederick Neumann and Bill Raymond) are as close as barstool buddies, and they stumble and blather about in a bleak inscape of metaphysical despair. Despite intermittent japery, they are triste, petulant atheists who resent the fact that they...
...primary, Kucinich polled only 15.3 per cent of the black vote compared to 25.3 per cent for Republican Lieutenant Governor George V. Voinovich. Still, Kucinich delivers speeches in the black ghetto to tumultuous applause and former mayor Carl Stokes has strongly endorsed him, telling the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "I understand that in a diverse city in which racial politics has been the order of the day, that, if a man is going to survive, he has to do what everyone who has survived has done, including me...Kucinich has a record that deserves his re-election...
...Faculty found the technical issues--such as financial aid and housing expansion--too confusing to discuss. Wilson recalls faculty members looking befuddled and finally declaring, "Well, that's an interesting idea," but Wilson says most didn't really understand what was involved, and asked to move on to something else...
...totally into experiences and understanding. He always attempted to understand," Doug Ames '80 said yesterday...