Everywhere you go, small crowds are huddled around radios and TV sets silently absorbing the news, blank faced, as if unable to comprehend what they are seeing and hearing.

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Many who hold modern era post-graduate degrees are unable to read and comprehend the great authors even of the recent past.

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He was unable to formulate sentences that I could comprehend.

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