Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is not to say that the Teaching Fellows should rest silently. They cannot. Everyone at Harvard wishes to see their lot, especially their financial lot, improved. The leaders of the Teaching Fellows would perhaps be well advised at this time to return to Deans Elder and Ford and explain once again their dire financial plight: the imminently rising cost of living in the Cambridge area. This administration is not tough and hard-boiled; they can be made to understand that their graduate students cannot make ends meet on the present shoe-string salary they receive. In fact, they must...
...Navy, only to be turned down by both as physically unfit (eyesight alone would have disqualified him). As the war went on, he changed his mind, or the war changed its character. When the draft called, he refused to report and wrote a letter to the President to explain why. He wrote not as a dissident citizen to the all-powerful President of the U.S. but haughtily as a Boston Lowell to a Hudson Valley Roosevelt: "You will understand how painful such a decision is for an American whose family traditions, like your own, have always found their fulfillment...
...Woodward argues that primary emphasis must be on social reforms because the Viet Cong thrive in their absence. Yet field work in Southeast Asian villages convinces me that conditions of insecurity and the promise of power more nearly explain the Viet Cong than does lack of reforms. In most villages, government, aside from an occasional policeman, has never been a significant presence. Consequently nothing in the village can stand up to a determined guerrilla minority. Steve Young...
...that's a law, there are a lot of people who don't obey it. But latest studies show that the average TV set burns more than six hours a day, and that the average viewer spends more than three hours before the tube. This helps to explain why TV advertising has grown to $3 billion a year in billings and why the nation's TV stations earned about 30% profit before taxes in 1965, the last year tabulated...
Supernatural Fables. Two Tales is the one book among the three translations that should prompt U.S. readers to endorse the Nobel committee's judgment. Symbolic and supernatural fables, masterpieces of the form, they help to explain why Agnon has been compared to Kafka. In Betrothed, the heroine Susan suddenly appears before the hero, a young scientist on the threshold of a brilliant career, to remind him of the vows of fidelity they had sworn as children. Susan is the past: alluring, insistent; and the compulsion she represents is as enduring as mankind's yearning for its departed youth...