Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...understand the Cuban revolution, and to understand what kind of a "challenge" it really presents, requires that we stop thinking of world problems solely in terms of our benefits. It seems strange to expect Castro or the Cuban people to honor the economic agreements and deals made by Batista, whom the overwhelming majority of Cubans abhorred. The American companies were, and were seen as, comrades of Batista's tyranny. If we forget that Batista murdered 20,000 Cubans, we cannot expect the Cuban people to do likewise. For the first time in sixty years, the Cuban people are free; only...
...arms the populace he "terrorizes") and his revolution, de present a challenge to Latin America and the U.S. For the former, the challenge is to accomplish a similar revolution without being forced into either of the world blocs. For the U.S. the only challenge that exists is to understand the Latin American, and then to aid Castro in his attempts to bring to the majority of Cubans--suppressed for so many decades--the kind of life we have and boast of. And indeed, this is the challenge given us by all Latin America, which will one day decide to wait...
...cited four former University professors, William James, Alfred North Whitehead, Josiah Royce, and William E. Hocking, who tried to reconcile Christianity with other religions, and urged a new effort to understand different faiths. "We must set aside differences caused by the accidents of geography and accept the universal ideas transmitted by a common heritage." Such ideas, he stated, are necessary to avoid "hollowness" in life...
...change of key-Williams is suggesting that, far from so many people having hideous lives and fates, most people really needn't suffer from even the milder, more widespread afflictions. He has called off the bloodhounds at last, and would simply have people try harder to cooperate and understand...
...forbore in foolish charity and a mistaken belief that, after all, they were men like ourselves. Nothing human-even from New Haven-was alien to us, we said. Overlooking clear signs that the Yalies were indeed what our fathers said they were, we worked hard at trying to understand them. We met them. We talked with them. Compulsive do-gooders among us even read the Yalie Daily. Then came the election and the realization that...