Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...reviews of The Cocktail Party have amused me a little, as it seems that many New York intellectuals are still languishing in the negativism of the '20s and lagging well behind the simpler but wiser ordinary folk who crowd the theater to see and understand...
Patrons of a people's restaurant, wrote the irate columnist, would hardly order dishes whose names they either could not understand or which called up memories to turn any decent proletarian stomach. "Competent quarters should take to heart this piece of advice-a restaurant filled with workers is of more value than a 'bonne femme' in the company of Prince Esterhazy or Prince Metternich." Furthermore, it simply did not make sense "that a dish of veal should have five different names, each of which is priced higher according to its unintelligibility...
...spiritual values" into the U.S. public school system. But Boston University's President, black-browed, white-haired Methodist Minister Daniel L. Marsh, resplendent in a self-designed scarlet mortarboard and scarlet robe with ermine epaulets, dramatized the new temper of the times in terms any freshman could understand. In his address he called attention to the fact that the new limestone chapel, which bears his name, adjoins the new theology school on one side, and the colleges of Liberal Arts and Business Administration on the other. Not only that, but in planning the lighting for the buildings...
...sculptor, Epstein thinks, must "embody the hopes and ideals of his people, like the great artists of Egypt and Greece and the men who built the cathedrals . . . What they did everybody could understand. Everybody must understand...
Debby is the sentimental odyssey of a halfwit. After her husband is killed in the first World War, 35-year-old Debby cannot understand that he is dead because there has been no sitting-up, and no funeral and there is no grave on which to put flowers. After being stuck away in an institution for delinquent women for a while, she is taken into the home of the warmhearted Merrills...