Word: explaination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter, the convention's chief value was the opportunity that it gave him to explain, promote and in some cases defend his policies. Particularly crucial for the President is winning Democrats' support for the unpopular spending cuts he feels must be made in the 1980 budget to help control inflation. "We will balance those sacrifices fairly," he promised. "If we err in this balance, it will be on the side of those who are most in need...
DAVID RIESMAN, Ford Professor of the Social Sciences, is quoted as espousing a "backlash" theory to explain Klemesrud's somewhat shaky observation that women are once again heading for the clothes racks in search of sexy duds. Riesman, in a recent interview with The Crimson, explained his "theory" was formed spontaneously when Klemesrud told him that women were once again becoming sex objects. He referred mainly to one of the more sensitive and critical problems with the women's movement. Primarily, Riesman says that some "women have felt pushed around, made to feel square," by radical feminists who were trying...
...sure Harvard would come to its senses and insisted that the scholarship offer would remain open indefinitely. Another chance to grouse arose two years later when, as part of a mass mailing to alumni, he got a letter requesting funds. Conant was obliged to write again and explain that the University's position had not changed...
...public side had far more impact on the viewer. Wolff found this to be so; after studying the faces of others, subjects in his experiments noted that the right side of the face looked more like the whole face than the left side did. But Wolff could not explain...
...researchers explain, when two people stand face to face, the right eye of one studies the left side of the face of the other. The right eye, in turn, is controlled by the left hemisphere of the brain, the half that is less deft at reading images. Thus people may unconsciously mislead one another by presenting a confident or blank public expression on the right side of the face, where it has a strong effect, and by "hiding" strong emotions on the poorly perceived left side...