Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...true that friends and opponents alike may find it hard to understand that Teilhard's conception of evolution is not in disagreement with the traditional Roman Catholic outlook. But this comes from a misunderstanding that could have most unfortunate consequences...
Haunted by Ghosts. For all his unpopularity, Mahler also had powerful admirers-Bruno Walter, Richard Strauss, and particularly Arnold Schoenberg, who called him a "saint" and confounded Mahler vith his own early experiments in atonalism ("I don't understand his music," said Mahler. "I am old, and I daresay my ear is not sensitive enough...
Play Ball. Dr. Lilly first learned to admire dolphins at Marineland in Florida, where he watched them entertain tourists. He noticed that they seemed to understand spoken commands, learned quickly the rules and tactics of water polo. Dissection showed that their brains are even bigger than human brains and have as complicated a cerebral cortex, the seat of the higher mental functions. Encouraged by these observations, Dr. Lilly planted electrodes in the dolphins' brains and found a spot that gave them exquisite pleasure when it was stimulated by a feeble pulse of electricity. Their eyes...
...backward-scowling Jimmy Porter. At 18 or so. he is a mortician's clerk in a scruffy little Yorkshire town, so benumbed by his surround ings that he fancies he has caught an entirely new disease, Fisher's Yawn. When his earthbound parents mulishly refuse to, understand his plans for becoming a scriptwriter in London, he retaliates in his imagination by inventing a set of properly sophisticated, London-based par ents, including a frightfully U mother who merely looks up from her solitaire when he comes home drunk and drawls indulgently: ''Oh God, how dreary...
...apartment on Berkley St. to which he has moved with his family, Dean Bundy explains that his home will be used to house students in the fall because of the destruction of the Leverett Towers. "We had to make room somewhere," he goes on. "I want you to understand that this is not expansion--we just happened to admit more this year." The next day, Dean Munro comments that he could "put up a few" in his newly-built $125,000 house. Failing to nominate a Democrat, the Democratic Party convention offers the running to Nelson Rockefeller. Rockefeller issues...