Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Night Riders. How to explain the craze? One old hand, Major G. N. Loraine-Smith of the Pytchley Hunt, says that it "has something to do with the mechanical age creating a longing to get back to something near the earth." He adds: "We even have factory workers hiring ponies and riding out without sleep after working a night shift." But one vocal segment of the British population objects to this form of outdoor recreation...
...Never say only a symbol," Paul Tillich perennially warned his pupils-and his life work is testimony to the importance of symbol to the human psyche and to the fact that the answers given by the Nazarene rabbi who died on the Cross can still help 20th century man explain himself to himself...
...that he kept leaving off the halos. His taste for reality over illusion distressed his teacher, Academician Thomas Couture, whose 1847 uncostumed orgy, Romans of the Decadence, was the hit of the day. Manet's mother, goddaughter of Jean Baptiste Bernadotte who became King of Sweden, could only explain it thus: "He could paint quite differently, but his friends led him astray...
Birth Control. For reasons that ecologists are unable to explain, the elephants themselves seem to be aware of the danger-and have begun to practice birth control of sorts. At Tsavo, where the elephant population has entered a "cycle of despair," the mating age of young cows has been mysteriously delayed by three years, and the interval between their offspring has nearly doubled from four years to seven. Such natural controls are not enough, however. Game experts agree that the only solution is the final solution-a bullet...
...Republicans' big hope for victory has always been the insurance scandal. Three weeks ago Levander added sensational new fuel to a fire Republicans have been stoking for the last year and a half. He demanded the Rolvaag explain a $2000 campaign check from the notorious American Allied insurance empire dated January, 1965 -- just before the furor began...