Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...private 1955 explanation to Eden at Geneva, as to why Khrushchev & Co. could not then agree to German reunification: The new Khrushchev regime was "reasonably solidly based in the country," but if they had gone home proclaiming the reunification of Germany, "neither the army nor the people would understand, and this was no time to weaken the government. The people would say that this was something Stalin would have never agreed...
...year-old Dr. Victor Raymond Edman (a minister in the Swedish Mission Covenant Group), sees the Bible and science as two separate systems of knowledge. "Jesus doesn't choose to speak to us on matters scientific," he says. "He could, but he doesn't. Science helps us understand a great deal about the universe, but not about the creator of the universe and his personality." How about the theory of evolution? Says Dr. Russell Mixter of the Plymouth Brethren, zoology professor and chairman of the biological sciences department: "It no more explains the fact...
...soul-searching experience. Once more, my curiosity about Judaism was set aflame." The rabbi recommended several books. "At first, reading those books confused me. I would read a few pages, close the book, and try to figure out what the writer was saying. Little by little I began to understand...
...same oppression and obstacles thrown in our way were overcome by a greater force than mere tenacity ... I wanted to become a Jew because Judaism held an honesty and spiritual peace that was lacking in my personal makeup . . . "I became a Jew because I was ready and willing to understand the plight of a people who fought for thousands of years for a homeland, giving their lives and bodies, and finally gaining that homeland...
...other colonials, ends with the novel's trial scene (in the book, 13 more chapters follow). The confused girl withdraws her charge against Aziz, but at the final curtain the Indian angrily faces his former friend, an English school principal, across an unbridgeable distance: "We do not understand each other. We are on different sides, and until there is no question of sides, we cannot be friends...