Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination, question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer in this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived...
This article is designed to explain how to achieve the third answer to this perplexing problem by the use of vague generality, the artful equivocation, and the overpowering assumption...
...hard-pressed to explain the Washingtonian's meekness in the face of the most faceless manifestation of our legal system. One possible explanation is that, in the nation's capital, respect for legality is natural...
...accident of geography stemmed not from courage and honor but from wrong and shame, descended to him." Roth decrees that Henry must sleep on a pallet on the floor. This primal wrong and first denial of equality leaves Roth in "a rigid fury of the grief he could not explain, the shame he would not admit." Just how far Mississippi's troubles extend back into history is examined in Absalom, Absalom! That history is inexorably racial. The novel mercilessly strips away the romantic Southern mythology to reveal the brutal repression of slavery, the arrogance of plantation owners who could...
...first act ends with Thomas trying to explain 'the living legacy of the one up there" to Nathaniel. Thomas asks, "Do you understand?" Nathaniel takes three giant steps, shakes his head and moves offstage. Thomas, alone, tells us, "He didn't understand." This, unfortunately, was the quasitheatrical ending of only the first of three acts...