Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Negro courtroom lawyer, but Marshall says drily that he hopes to devise a constitution that will give the individual European and Asian in Kenya at least "the same rights as a Negro has in Indiana." And he adds: "After this experience, I'm going to understand our own problem in the U.S. a damn sight better than before...
...Narciso Seguer wrote to Galinsoga, tactfully suggested that the culprit must have been an impostor using Galinsoga's card. Replied Galinsoga: "The card is mine. To go to church in a Spanish city where one hears, apart from Latin, a language that a Spaniard has no obligation to understand appears absurd...
...Havana (Kingsmead; Columbia), Carol Reed's screen version of Graham Greene's bestselling thriller, starts out like a conventional Alec Guinness comedy, a wonderfully silly spoof of a spy thriller. But before long, the attentive spectator will understand that Greene, Reed, Guinness & Co. are tickling his ribs with the well-sharpened stiletto of political satire, and he may not entirely relish the sensation...
...many younger teachers of quality from coming here and effectively prohibits giving tenure to other desirable scholars. But his more important reservation about this fine faculty concerns its relationship to the odious undergraduate body. The great scholars have every right to ignore undergraduates (it is sometimes difficult to understand why more of them do not) and squat in a corner of Widener deciphering Ogam Stones. One can only hope, for their sake and the University's, that what most of them produce is "worth" the upkeep of their studies and the amount of departmental stationery they consume. It is still...
...evil as an absolute, an ingrained disposition towards total selfishness, a combination of the willingness and the ability to blight lives, rather than a mere evaluation derived from totaling up a number of acts. At moments, evil lives on Mr. Mayer's stage; if we are never able to understand it, we can feel it as each of the characters strives to get possession of another's worldly goods or body or soul. This living principle of evil generates a sense that something important is at stake in all these deftly tangled intrigues...