Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forest-dwelling animals loped excitedly about on all fours and made threatening noises, but demonstrated no signs of organization and failed to attack the leopard. Concludes Kortlandt: "A forest habitat dehumanizes and a plains habitat humanizes chimpanzee behavior in both fighting technique and bipedal walking. We now can better understand how man as a plains-dwelling biological creature became a real human being, using weapons and cooperating...
...membership in Chinese society. Compliment him on his knowledge of aspects of Chinese culture or of the Chinese language. Entertain him with informality and frankness. Establish the personal bonds of friendship, which in the old China were stronger than in Western urban life today. Become really intimate friends and understand his unspoken assumptions and personal motivations...
...hardly dare attempt a statement on the book's unity. Lowell says in his note that the theme connecting the translations in Rome, but that he does not quite understand how one couples Rome with the America of his own poems. I feel quite sure there is a unity, and that such a coupling can be made, but equally sure that it should be made in a suggestive way that remains open to modification. There are certain parallels between Juvenal-Lowell on Rome and Lowell on New York, for example. Consider the lines "Behind each bush perhaps a knife" ("Central...
That, in essence, is our proposal. It is skeletal both because of time and space, but also because we understand that the problem must be worked
...people whose beliefs grew out of that daily struggle, no matter where it took place, that Kazin reserves his admiration. While Kazin's biases and prejudices are interesting in trying to understand the complexities that plagued American intellectuals in the '30's, they are not nearly so interesting as the tone of tentativeness in which Starting Out In The Thirties is wrapped...