Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studio screens, breathlessly described it as the first "spiritual manifestation" in television history. A local Unitarian minister wondered: Could it have been saliva from the girl's lips? The head was porous and had been left outdoors: Had it been exuding moisture? Shirley Anne had her own simple answer: "God made it cry for some reason." The chancellor of the Syracuse Diocese was cautious; as others had done, he conceded that moisture seemed to show on St. Anne's face when Shirley Anne kissed it, hastened to add that "the explanation of the fact, or its significance...
Paris, basking in the fine Easter sunshine, was invaded by hordes of eager tourists. As they took in the sights or eyed the smart Parisian girls in their spring dresses, they were accosted by furtive "characters who hissed: "Have you dollars?" Most of the time, the answer was a blunt no. The bottom had fallen out of the currency black market...
...brilliant details and smart structural economies, Breuer's little house was probably not the answer that most home builders with $27,475 to spend were looking for. Like a lot of the paintings in the museum that loomed above it, Breuer's house was perhaps too uncompromisingly "modern...
Worse still, the typically American Aldriches are also unhappy. The goals that the "Aldrichian civilization" respects (wealth, pleasure, power, or that sort of empty erudition acquired by "departmentalized pedants hiding in the holes of research") answer no essential needs. The Aldriches remain petulant and predatory...
Morison, Merk, and Schlesinger handle American history with authority. The American history question on the departmental exam can be answered after taking Merk's History 61a, one of the most rewarding half-courses in the department. Blake's course on the Byzantine Empire of Bruck's on Roman Law is the answer to the ancient or medieval question on the exam...