Word: understand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's physical infirmity was reviewed in Tevere, with this conclusion: "One can understand why Roosevelt pushes his country toward war. He is a man of catastrophe, he is a man of ill luck, and he wants to bring ill luck to America." To U. S. Ambassador William Phillips this seemed a bit too much. He protested to Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. Result: continued front-page anti-U. S. editorials in almost every Italian newspaper...
...almost always with the same group. His wit, which has made him feared by sycophants, is famous and often malicious. Examples: (of a young girl artist) "Her mother drinks, her father drinks, and it is she who has the red nose"; (of James Joyce) "an obscur whom everyone can understand." Picasso's critics do not like the way he pretends that nothing he says can have any really damaging effect. They point to this as one more symptom of spoiled-childishness which accepts the pleasant aura of fame without acknowledging the responsibility it entails...
...commonplace psychological and artistic health. But with equal sobriety they feel that the time is past for amazement, shock or swoon over Pablo Picasso; that young painters had better know their own minds, their craft and their time as well as Picassian esthetics. Says Picasso, bored: "Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of the birds? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? Whereas with painting, people must understand. If only they would realize that an artist ... is only a trifling bit of the world, and that...
...good reason why General Wu has no desire at present to become a Japanese puppet was not hard to understand. By week's end in Shanghai, patriotic Chinese assassins rubbed out one more of a score of their countrymen for connivance with the Japanese. His name was Mao Yu-hong and his briefly held job was Secretary General to the puppet Nanking Government...
...given him last fall by Secretary Morgenthau. With Mr. Morgenthau resting in Florida, John Hanes became, after less than a year of Government service, the Treasury's acting head. Mr. Morgenthau was well content, for as two men of property, probity and conservative tastes, he and John Hanes understand each other well. They agree, for instance, that if the Budget is not balanced some day soon, the country will surely go to hell...