Word: understood
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Herman's sister and mother, Gretchen Klopfer and Laurie Patton surmount the formidable task of transforming characters written as villains into people whose prejudices, though painfully unjustified, can still be understood. Klopfer gives young Anabelle unexpected sensitivity. More than just a racist bitch, Patton's aging matriarch is a woman who, unable to accept her status as "poor white trash," clings to a delusion of superiority, the dying idea of white supremacy. In contrast to Herman's identification with Blacks, his mother hates them because she needs someone to despise in the same way that she suffers the condescension...
...Gail Johnson, provost of the University of Chicago, said yesterday he understood the university's policy of accepting more doctoral candidates in economics then Harvard does "did have some influence" on Harberger's decision...
Like the bubonic plague that swept through medieval Europe, global inflation is all the more frightening because neither its causes nor its cures are fully understood. Herewith, an economic Baedeker, arranged according to varying degrees of success in fighting inflation...
...Washington, about 100 athletes, coaches, trainers and sports officials invited to the White House to discuss the boycott greeted President Carter with stony silence as he entered the East Room. In his 20-minute appeal, Carter said he understood their disappointment, but asserted that no matter what other athletes attend the Moscow Olympics, "ours will not go . . . the decision has been made." He hoped that alternate games would compensate, and even promised special recognition for anyone who attended. But in an informal poll afterward, only 29 supported the U.S. position...
Orren's polls show "the public has never believed that Carter is an extremely competent leader. He was getting some high marks at the height of Iran, mostly for restraint.... But even then, people understood that he had failed his way into that...