Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Stand by Our Duty." On Wednesday, Mr. Attlee decided to make himself a little more audible. Armed with a carefully written, studiously undramatic speech, he faced an audience of about 700 in the National Press Club. "Our talks," he read hopefully, "are enabling us to understand each other's point of view." Was there a suspicion that he had come to the U.S. to talk of appeasement? "That word of ill omen . . . That is not true. We know from our own bitter experience that appeasement does not pay." Then he spoke the one emotion-charged passage in his speech...
From Belgrade: In Communist Yugoslavia, which should understand Moscow and Peking better than the free capitals, the reaction to the Korean crisis was notably tough. The authoritative Review of International Affairs urged a show of strength against the Red aggressors...
England's grey stone, gothic cathedrals and trim, bottle-green countryside, and the fleshless abstractions of modern European art, only roused Williams' nostalgia for Guiana. "I'd been too busy trying to understand European art and I'd overlooked the material at my own back door." Last year he went home to Guiana to take another look...
What does it all mean? "Don't try to understand," the princess tells one of her victims, and Cocteau echoes her in an "explanation" that is not much more enlightening than his movie. Orpheus is no allegory, he says, but simply an attempt to touch entertainingly in film metaphor on a scrambled collection of such themes as free will, inspiration and the poet's preoccupation with death. What the movie does with these themes is as elusive and disjointed as a half-remembered dream...
...even though the book was currently selling between 2,000 and 3,000 copies a week). Its tone was that of a man who has had eight Martinis (or Montgomerys), who thinks the world is both terrible and wonderful, is surprised by his own brilliance and can't understand why slightly soberer people consider him appallingly dull...