Word: comprehended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rather than imposing massive reform, the act tinkers and fine-tunes. It narrows some long-abused loopholes, widens others; it tidies up some of the messiest corners of the tax code and introduces new complexities into others. To cope with it, taxpayers must attempt to comprehend subtle variations in meaning and vague, ambiguous words and phrases. Among other things, the law will be forcing many more taxpayers than ever to learn the distinction between a deduction and a tax credit (a deduction is subtracted from the income subject to tax: a credit is subtracted directly from the amount...
Jaynes, 55, a research psychologist at Princeton, now knows that what he was trying to comprehend was consciousness-and how it arose from mere matter. Indeed, he thinks he finally has the answer: consciousness arose from language in two evolutionary steps and appeared for the first time in human history in the second millennium B.C. Jaynes proposes this startling concept in his new book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. If his theory is correct, mankind existed without consciousness for thousands of centuries, functioning dimly in "antlike" colonies nearly up to the age of Confucius...
...although we are told that the president's son, one of the anarchists, may be the killer. If so, so what? Is the point then that all repressive regimes deserve to fall, or that morons have no right to power? Or is the president a tragic figure, unable to comprehend the forces that inexorably dictate his destruction, much less his own shattered personal life? And who really cares, anyway? Certainly not the audience. The point of theater, even political theater, is to entertain first and score ideological points later. As entertainment, The President ranks up there with the reading...
...grizzled teller of grisly war tales is also a time traveler who discovers a new world he cannot comprehend. Lest even the dimmest reader miss Rosales' mythic overtones. Day gives him the nickname El Lobo and introduces a scene in which the hero stares pensively at a caged but still spunky wolf...
...African village to a flogging in the slave quarters of a Virginia plantation, offer almost no new insights, factual or emotional, about the most terrible days of the black experience. Instead, there is a handy compendium of stale melodramatic conventions by which, since abolitionist days, popularizers have tried to comprehend a crime so monstrous that, like the Holocaust, it is beyond anyone's ability to re-create in intelligent dramatic terms...