Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Except for this difference in training Goody saw little discrepancy between Russian and American goals or successes in his field. Physical meteorology has direct application to weather control ("You can't control the weather until you understand it"), and is being studied in the light of information obtained by several of the satellites the United States and Russia have put into orbit...
...terms of being a human being... I frankly didn't run into one person, one human being here that I could say I truly admired and wanted to be like. Lots of stimulated me with ideas, but that's entirely different from being the kind of person I understand Whitehead was Now perhaps if I had been a better student and gone into Honors...." And the students who did find a direction in which to go usually gave credit to an outstanding teacher who set them on their...
...power, since in the matrix of American Protestant culture "power is unconsciously regarded as Satanic.") Old-line Protestant ethics saw social morality as personal morality writ large, which led to such inappropriate questions as "How does one apply the Sermon on the Mount to foreign policy?" This failure to understand the difference between public and private morality, argues Murray, leads to the disastrously false alternatives that often characterize U.S. foreign or military policy, e.g., sentimental pacifism or all-out atomic holocaust. Murray believes that there is morally valid territory between these extremes, that war may be legitimate in the defensive...
...father cries aloud, wrenching his face to heaven, "you saw it! The death of the innocent child and my revenge. You allowed it! I don't understand you." In despair and atonement he vows to build a church of stone with his own hands on the spot where his daughter died. "I know no other way to be reconciled with my own hands. I know no other way to live." At that instant, a spring gushes out of the ground beneath the daughter's head. The father-and the Wotan-worshiping sister-fall on their knees to receive...
...half a dozen briskly selling albums on the market, will appear as the murderess Nancy in the forthcoming film version of Faulkner's Sanctuary. What distinguished her from the start was the meticulous care with which she tried to re-create the feeling of her folk songs; to understand the emotions of a convict in a convict ditty, she once tried breaking up rocks with a sledge hammer...