Word: understandables
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...nations at war? They do not understand one another. World economics and all the Fine Arts cannot bring about a true understanding of foreigners. Foreigners they remain as long as they voice what may be the same idea in a different language...
...captured alone, without an audience, and held to a direct answer of "Yes" or "No" to every question put to him. These two semi-truisms are by no means the be all and end all of Shaviainism; but they go a long way in helping most of us to understand the playwright. "Getting Married," playing this week at the Copley, is no exception to Shaw's rules. It is witty, intellectual and enjoyable; it tears down without building up; it makes mince-meat of "class" and "respectability"; and it leaves the mind in a whirl. We should like to believe...
...class of 1922 have spoken for their classmates of the loss which they feel in the death of Richard Perkins Parker. Or only excuse for adding to what they have said is the fear that there may be some who did not know him who will not understand that the loss is far more than a loss to any single class. As true a Harvard man as the under graduates, of the our time will ever know has gone; there is no one of us who need not share the grief of his friends...
...have."--just as four years ago he expressed his regret that he was not younger. The son, of course, dutifully if not always enthusiastically, agrees. What else can he do? He could hardly deny that, next to taking an active part in the great movement, the opportunity to understand it is a rich privilege...
...sure that you have definite agreement with your landlady as to the length of time for which you are engaging rooms. Otherwise you may find you self In difficulty if you leave Cambridge before June. Furthermore, if you are not sure of being admitted to college let your landlady understand that. The latter has a custom of assuming a great deal that is not mentioned, and even without a signed contract, can make it very disagreeable for her tenant should he decide to leave...