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All the other critics in America--"our official arbiters of culture"--"have lost the gift of being able to comprehend a work of art that does not reflect their immediate experience; they have become afraid of genuine art."
At worst, the jocks are hurting Bradley by failing to comprehend and refute misrepresentations of his agenda.
MIT's Steven Pinker argues that the Rochester researchers fail to comprehend that "learning words and learning grammar are ...
Beaten down by last week's producer price index number and the myriad misreadings of Alan Greenspan's comments, stocks came roaring back this week after the consumer price index for September was reasonable and Microsoft reported blowout numbers--no doubt all due to Slate , in some complicated way that not even we can fully comprehend.
Then there is Come Back to Sorrento (1932), a simple, direct, and achingly beautiful study of two would-be artists in a stultifying small town that cannot comprehend their dreams and ambitions ( Come Back to Sorrento , by the way, is one of the very few books written before the gay-lib movement that features homosexual characters and is neither a soggy plea for understanding, a mockery or hate tract, a clinical case study, or anything other than an intricate and compassionate rendering of some fellow human beings).