Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said that more discussions with minority groups on campus are needed to try to understand why minorities are under-represented in theater and how to change the perception among students that HRDC doesn't reach out to all students...
...themselves to give him: Asked what he had learned from a biography of former secretary of state Dean Acheson, which he said last week he was reading, Bush offered "that our nation's greatest export to the world has been, is and always will be the incredible freedoms we understand in the great land called America," and other generalities from his stump speech, but said nothing about Acheson. John McCain took the opportunity to jump in with a supposedly knowledgeable comment about Acheson, but more important, the senator came across as easily the more comfortable in dealing with questions...
Rape politics are a particularly difficult area in this respect. The more strongly we feel about the crime of rape--and the more we understand about its devastating consequences for its victims--the less inclined we are to care about the other side of the story. I have heard people say, with the most earnest passion, that if a woman says she's been raped that's enough for them--as if to need any more evidence than that was to insult and trivialize rape survivors everywhere, to perpetuate the abhorrent tradition of blaming the victim. But it should work...
...just passed two big tests. He had performed adequately in delivering his first major foreign-policy speech, and two days later he had emerged virtually unscathed from a one-hour grilling on NBC's Meet the Press. After being knocked for weeks as a lightweight who didn't understand foreign policy and could not field tough questions, he had handled the speech and the televised interview well enough to quiet some of his critics. Now the next hurdle, a debate this week in New Hampshire, seemed less daunting. "I'm feeling comfortable," Bush told his team as he sipped coffee...
...with great interest that I read the article on Henry Grunwald's book Twilight, about his battle with macular degeneration [BOOKS, Nov. 15]. Having lost my vision in midlife, I can empathize with Grunwald and understand his daily struggle. I would like others with vision problems to know that reading machines are available that convert the printed pages of books, magazines and newspapers into speech through technology that scans the printed text. This is an absolute blessing and eases the burden of sight loss, affording blind people the opportunity to enjoy topical printed material without additional human assistance. CYNTHIA GROOPMAN...