Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...your German will ride two days on muleback to sell a dozen packages of razor blades. The American in a Latin country tends to insulate himself from contact with the people of the country; the social customs seem to him absurd, and he makes little effort to understand them. He is not interested, and usually is not backward about showing his disinterest. Germans perhaps feel the same way, but if they do they are quite generally able to hide it. They marry Latins relatively more frequently than is the case with us, and are careful to choose a girl...
...public and most Congressmen simply do not understand the time element in industrial production of munitions. They must be told again and again until they do understand why it takes time to build tanks, guns and planes. They must realize that wars are won in factories years before the conflict in the field...
...self-indulgent and provincial," he stated that he had never met a Sibelius-lover among "educated professional musicians." In Critic Thomson's sum: "The music . . . was soggy, the playing dull and brutal. As a friend remarked who had never been to one of these concerts before, 'I understand now why the Philharmonic is not a part of New York's intellectual life...
Stringfellow ("Winkle") Barr, president of St. John's College (100 classics), believes that anyone can understand a classic. Last spring he and Columbia Broadcasting System's Adult Education Board decided to try to explain the world's great books to the U. S. radio audience. In a program called Invitation to Learning, each week three literary critics held a half-hour ad lib discussion of a classic before a microphone. Among their topics: The U. S. Constitution, Plato's Republic, Flaubert's Madame Bovary...
...notion that "You can't understand the Oriental mind" is being dispelled by able writers and journalists of both races. Lin Yutang and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek show us China from the inside--John Gunther and Carl Crow from the outside. J.B. Powell continues to give us his important journal of opinion, the China Weekly Review, though he is on Wang's blacklist and has to have a bodyguard...