Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sophisticated Arabs often explain that in the Arab world, everyone understands that exaggerated language is not to be taken literally and that the West must not take it literally either. Still, elfyza (verbalization) decisively shapes Arab thought and action. Arabic tends to act as a compensatory mechanism, producing a world far more attractive than the real one. Such an escape from reality was the recent blatant Nasser-Hussein lie that Anglo-American planes helped Israel. Arabs believed it because it could have happened: Arab truth is meant to be only approximate or potential. There is no credibility gap among Arabs...
...royalty checks were earmarked for furs and fine whips. For her part, Wanda was expected to chastise him regularly, and in general she promised to dishonor, disobey and degrade him. To that effect, they signed a "treaty." But the marriage went wrong. Biographer Cleugh does not succeed in explaining why, but it is fairly obvious that Frau Sacher-Masoch had no intention of keeping her vows. His entreaties notwithstanding, she refused at first to be unfaithful to him, even when he went so far as to place advertisements for cuckolders in the Vienna Tageblatt. Anguished Divorce...
...White Sox do have superb pitching. Joel Horlen won his ninth game in ten decisions last week, and has a 1.96 earned-run average; Gary Peters has a 10-3 record and an E.R.A. of 2.23; Tommy John is 6-5 and 2.43. But even that does not explain why a ball club with a team batting average of .239 is way out in front of the American League. "Alertness, enthusiasm and confidence" is Stanky's explanation-which translates into hustle, bustle and bluster and sums up the White Sox manager as well as his team...
That, at least, is the theory of a few "doctors" around the U.S. who bill themselves as "canine psychologists." The leading practitioner, a Beverly Hills man named Dare Miller, 40, has propagated a whole four-dollar Freudian vocabulary to explain what it is that teaches old dogs new tics...
...explain why I object to the hour that separates the beginning from the end, I shall have to start by disagreeing with the Harvard Dramatic Club's advertising on Peace...