Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...reader's assimilation of news will never be "effortless." TIME, however, tries to sift, sort, condense and explain the news by this simple standard: How much effort can an ordinarily educated and intelligent man or woman be expected to use in understanding this story? It's no use saying that 80 million Americans ought to have a thorough grasp of physics by this time next year. Whether they ought to or not, they won't. Until they do, the journalist who wants to communicate anything about physics must continue to explain certain rudiments in terms that readers...
President Taylor divided the educated woman into three categories: 1) the "co-ed type: gay, happy, extroverted, and judging success by the number of men who seek her company; 2) the Helen Hokinson type: intelligent, educated woman commenting on a world she does not fully understand--she would cure society with a lending library and Norman Cousins; 3) the ideal type: doing whatever she has to do with grace, whatever she wants to do with enjoyment; she is interested in her education and her life...
...This world-wide project," the Rotary says, "makes it possible for each Fellow to understand the people of a different nation which assists him to face the problems of the world of tomorrow...
...face the dangers of a very tough world, what we need is not to be overwhelmed with these dangers, but to understand them, and with courage and resolution and patience face up to those dangers, and see them through. We've done it before; we can do it again...
...Before she is 13, Meg is raped by an older boy, manages to pass her history examination by threatening to expose her teacher, whom she has caught in a Lesbian relationship. Meg's parents know nothing of her life in that lurid world: few adults could hope to understand her much better in the other...