Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your May 27 article on Picasso, assisted by wonderful reproductions, will be of much help in aiding the readers to understand and appreciate him. Picasso's art truly manifests the spirit of our wondrous age. No artist before him has been able to portray emotion on canvas in such...
...That woman," said fastidious Dr. Yves Evenou of his unlovely mistress Simone Deschamps one day last week, "horrifies me." The doctor's horror was easy enough for the police to understand, for Simone had just plunged a knife into the breast of his wife Marie-Claire, and Marie was dead. This was the truth but not, it turned out, the whole truth...
These individuals rarely understand what actually takes place in a Nat Sci course, or else they pick upon the discontinued offerings which students named "cocktail biology." Their conversation betrays an analogy with ninth-grade general science...
...other hand, the Churches are trying to create a new Christian order, then the first business at hand is to define that order and forget the educational experiment for a few centuries. What, for instance, is the contemporary world supposed to understand by the Christian use of the word "God"? How are we to take statements about heaven and hell or the day of judgment? When these questions can be answered in ways which move men to live again, then we can talk about Christian education
Distribution was represented by General Education. A student was supposed to understand the trinitarian approach to the mind, grasping the attitudes of the Natural Science, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities. In all three cases, this educational effort followed the "learning by doing" theory, since even introductory courses in General Education had very little to say about the underlying premises and attitudes of their field as contrasted with others, but simply "did" in their own area...