Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INSIDE SOUTH AMERICA, by John Gunther. A political travelogue of the South American continent, conducted by a tour guide who knows all the sights but moves too briskly to explain them thoroughly...
...China Fairbank had to explain in 1967 was considerably less comfortable for foreigners than the nation saw in 1932 when he first arrived in Peking. With $1000 the young student settled himself and his wife for three years in a large house with several servants, hired a Chinese tutor, and then, finishing his doctoral thesis, returned to the Harvard faculty. The war began and he was called back to China as a special assistant to the U.S. ambassador...
...leave it to the soc rel types among us to explain this phenomenon. But in some ways genre no longer matters much. Thunderball and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold fall at opposite ends of the spectrum even if they do both belong to the same loose category of "spy movies...
...style. Further, Negro leaders and activists are apt themselves to come from the most solid, even rigid family backgrounds and probably have real difficulty pecreiving or acknowledging the realities of lower-class life. And so on, down a long line of reasons, any one of which is sufficient to explain why, even when the subject is broached, as in the Howard speech, it barely makes its way into the press accounts, being an issue, as the Economist noted at the time, that liberals prefer to "skirt...
...violence--lost Now in the North the Negroes had resorted to violence, in a wild destructive explosion that shattered, probably forever, the image of nonviolent suffering. And within hours of the signing of the Voting Rights Act. The same new rule applied. The civil-rights movement could not explain Watts, and could not justify it. Then, of a sudden, the report on the Negro family was being used to do so. Watts made the report a public issue, and gave it a name. Or rather the columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak did in their column of August 18, which...