Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dangerous nonsense for us to equate our extravagant declarations regarding Viet Nam with our security commitments toward either Berlin or Japan. In Viet Nam our national interest is marginal; in the others, fundamental. Our friends and allies well understand this distinction; they will identify the two only if they think we are doing...
...without severe debate. Speaking for three dissenters, Judge Samuel Steinfeld was troubled by his "indelible" recollection of Nazi Germany's "genocide and experimentation with human bodies." Steinfeld argued that the mother had not demonstrated conclusively that the operation would benefit the retarded brother. "The ability to fully understand and consent," he declared, "is a prerequisite to the donation of a part of the human body...
Dear Penthouse: I have been going steady with Playboy ever since it came out in 1953. And I want you to understand right off that we've had a lot of fun together. Like, when we were both young, it was refreshing to find somebody who dreamed about females the way I dreamed about females. What's more, Playboy wasn't interested only in sex. It was the sort of magazine you could read on the Long Island Rail Road because it also published stories by legitimate writers. But lately I have been attracted by your siren...
...PEOPLE are talking about the Underground these days. It seems that once you've put a name to something, you have the power to understand it and to dissolve its strength into a variety of solutions ready to receive it. So it goes for the Underground. For the sociologists, it's a "subculture" with all sorts of appendages like new values and relevant commentaries. Hollywood and "Seventeen" magazine parade the "now-generation" and we get scene after slick page of how to be with whatever it is. Evidently, the Underground has made it: shunted off into its own little strata...
...goes much deeper than the outward signs of a particular lifestyle and forces the people involved to look away from the millennia as promised by Madison Ave. It promises something better. It is an answer to the angry helplessness of living in a jungle of machines you can't understand and of mass-produced ideas that are flung at you like cat-calls. Gather the feeling more closely about you; you can find pleasure in all the things that can't be processed, marketed or sold, you can find your own reasons for enjoying the things that...