Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...weren't even allowed to drown our frustrations at the lovely bar in the main lodge-that also being closed to all but officials and season-ticket holders. We gave up and went home to be greeted by the TV announcer saying that "officials just couldn't understand why this Winter Olympics was drawing such meager crowds...
...ADMISSION OF HIS CRIMINAL LIFE WAS PART OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL EFFORT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT CAUSED HIS CRIMINAL ACTS. THIS IS ONE REASON WHY SO MANY PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE...
...that I have not changed my mind. You do not seem to realize that my mind is not so thick as to see in only one direction; it can see in two or three directions. Discussions may not be fruitful, and yet they may be advisable. Do you understand that...
...Juscelino Kubitschek, who had received a false report that Ike's plane would be delayed. Kubitschek made a breathless appearance 14 minutes after the Air Force One had landed, and not until then did Ike emerge from his plane, but with complete decorum and a friendly pat ("I understand perfectly") for Kubitschek...
...author's point is presumably that the narrator arrives at the beginning of self-knowledge as he participates in Millhouser's own attempts to understand himself. But the young man with a master's thesis in mind is too solidly fleshed to be a mere literary convention, too ectoplasmic to be a real character. Neither of this world nor decently out of it, he hurts what should have been a good novel...