Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real Eugenio Monti is a short, slight, 38-year-old Italian who prefers Coca-Cola to Chianti, goes to bed at 9, earns his living as a ski-lift operator, and hasn't any idea how he happens to be the world's best bobsledder. "I cannot explain it," he says. "I can only...
Attempting to achieve any of these proposals will be a test for Swenson. He will not only have to describe the Coop's textbook problems to professors, but also explain why the Coop has done so little about them in the past. "Something must be wrong," a professor whose reading list arrived at the Coop Sept. 16 said last Fall. "I did the same thing this year I've done every year, and they never complained before...
University religion courses are designed not to defend one faith but to explain all. "We're not selling it; we're studying it," says Chairman John Hutchison of the Claremont College's religion department. Universities deliberately avoid hiring propagandizers for a faith. "It's completely irrelevant to us whether a man is a good Christian or a good Protestant or a good atheist just so long as he is a good and competent scholar," says Columbia's Joseph Blau. Western Michigan has had a Jesuit priest teaching Hinduism and Buddhism, while at Wisconsin a course...
...reasons he himself finds hard to explain, Lewenthal decided five years ago to study the neglected music of Alkan. Convinced that the composer "really had something to communicate," he presented his first all-Alkan recital in Manhattan in 1963. That led to an RCA Victor recording, released last summer. To the industry's surprise, the Alkan album took off and hovered among the top bestselling classical recordings for more than five months...
...mocked and that, in fact, one morning a few months later he would "pee blood," suffer frightful pains in his abdomen and shortly thereafter undergo an ulcer operation only to discover that he has no ulcer, that in fact there isn't a doctor in Italy who can explain his symptoms, which nevertheless increase in severity and peculiarity, the pains accompanied more and more often by such vivid evidences of acute anxiety-colitis, exhaustion, "testicular commotion" and finally even the delusion of facing an "attack by crooked lines"-that in time the wretched man is persuaded to consult...