Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bunting herself admitted, the Council members were "antagonized by the hunger strike" which prompted the forming of the Ad Hoc Committee. That explains where the Council went wrong: they simply failed to see beyond their hostility. But it doesn't explain some of the administration's negligence in presenting the committee's case. Dean Barbara Solomon, who had agreed to prepare the recommendations in time for study by the Council members before the meeting, still has not explained why she failed to do so. Jacqueline Lindsay, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee, says she called Dean Solomon before the meeting...
...found sitting at his desk with his hand on a small Hebrew Bible. Shenker was particularly struck by his good humor. "How do I manage to keep my temper?" said the Premier in response to a question. "If I were in America, I would have a psychiatrist to explain it. Don't all Americans have psychiatrists?" Shenker also interviewed the new Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan, who showed him a treasury of archaeological finds he has unearthed himself. Shenker collects jokes much as Dayan collects ancient pottery, and he obtained at least one specimen. "They say," remarked the new Minister...
...free of sexual problems and prejudices, either: while psychiatric folklore is full of case histories of complexes and inhibitions acquired in the home, no one has any idea about what psychological problems may be created in the classroom. Still, a reasonably well-prepared and well-balanced teacher can usually explain things in an atmosphere less emotionally charged than that found in the home. The big questions in class are when children are to be taught, how and with what...
...POVERTY. "Now that there is a chicken in almost every pot, and two or three cars in most garages, how do I explain or justify the one-fourth of our people who do not approach sharing these things...
...Juliet Wednesday. They had the powerful ghosts of Nureyev's Romeo and Fonteyn's Juliet to contend with, but they emerged more than successful. While Dowell lacks Nureyev's muchnoised animal magnetism and Miss Park misses Fonteyn's poise, they give the parts a charm and sincerity which explain well Shakespeare's rather sudden and convoluted plot...