Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compared to Gertrude Stein, William Saroyan and Lord Keynes, among others. The story also quotes him as believing himself to be "in the process of becoming" and that ours is a "paradoxical life." This is purely the philosophy of Georg Hegel. This in itself will suffice to explain why Simon is not serene...
Doctors have long known that at this later stage, the nerve fibers controlling the affected muscles have lost much of their protective sheathing (like insulation on electric wires), a fat-protein combination called myelin. But how to explain the early, on-again-off-again phase of the disease? The question seems particularly urgent because a satisfactory answer might lead into new areas of research and, hopefully, toward control or even prevention...
...historian, "an overwhelming sense of communal shame"-not for causing the war, but for the old Spartan sin of losing it. Delayed nationhood, humiliation, plus economic chaos and the example of Communist methods from which the Nazis borrowed much-each is essential but none is sufficient to explain Nazism. It could not have happened but for two additional qualities that in the past at least have always seemed to be part of the German character. One is romanticism, the antirational worship of Wagnerian life and death of which Nazism represented a cancerous acceleration. The Hitler regime was romantic, even idealistic...
...committee for which Pettigrew works plans to try "all various ways of intervention" to break this cycle. Next summer, it hopes to send integrated teams of psychologists to southern Negro schools to explain to the students how to get into a northern university. It also hopes to bring faculty members of the southern Negro schools north during their sabbaticals, to give them time to write and to think...
...would just like to explain to the readers why I did not like Stalin," he wrote, because "a new generation is growing now that knew nothing of the stormy applause [for Stalin] and the nights when we listened for the noises on the stairs. I realized that Stalin, in his nature and favorite methods, resembled the politicians of the Italian Renaissance...