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That the student activists of Berman's generation believed a political revolution to be within their grasp may seem a little puzzling from the vantage point of 30 years, but is perhaps understandable as a product of youthful exuberance: Berman himself lapses into a romantic nostalgia when he describes what it felt like to be in the vanguard of something new and magnificent--in politics, in culture, in the way human beings treat each other.
It is therefore possible when meeting with a group of, say, pharmaceutical chemists, to pick up a copy of their technical journal lying on a table and impress them with your grasp of their profession by reading an article out loud—without understanding a word of it.
The new, flexible shape, covered by a few thin layers of fabric, was enjoyable to its owner and accessible to the male grasp.
She plants clues--chance encounters with acquaintances of Drew's whose significance she doesn't grasp until a hundred pages later.
Believe me, you now have a better grasp of this story than you could possibly have gained from reading Woodward's entire piece--once.