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Word: understandable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, playwright Christopher Durang seems convinced that the audience will not understand his message unless it is beaten into them, and his script frequently employs a baseball bat where a fly-swatter would do. The result is a production which, while entertaining, is pretentious and overblown...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Schizophrenia | 11/10/1989 | See Source »

...better the Alumni Association does its jobof communicating to alumni about activities atHarvard, the better alumni understand why Harvardis doing what it is, including any fundraisingcampaign it might launch," says Charles J. Egan'54, Alumni Association president...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: Alumni and Fundraising: Harvard's Give and Take | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

...defenders will claim that the average citizen can't understand the necessity of these seemingly trivial investigations. The motive for beginning this long and costly investigation, however, was not a legitimate security concern, but J. Edgar Hoover's paranoia. The FBI had no probable cause and no evidence that librarians were tools of a Soviet conspiracy. Even more disturbing, Sessions still doesn't believe that FBI was doing anything out of the ordinary...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Tinker, Taylor, Librarian, Spy | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

...other words, these professors won't be meeting with students this semester; we'll just have to understand the massive changes in Eastern Europe by ourselves. As a first step towards this noble goal of self-education, I have compiled a diagnostic current events quiz...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Eastern European Quiz | 11/8/1989 | See Source »

...people don't understand it's not verysafe in Cambridge," Clyma said. "Also, although wethink of rape as only occuring at drunkenDartmouth frat parties, it happens at Harvardtoo...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: Panel Examines Ways To Support Rape Victims | 11/8/1989 | See Source »

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