Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real occupation or damage. I do not think that most of the students involved want to destroy this University: they sincerely belive they're just trying to improve it. But when beliefs spill into unwarranted disruption, a professor's duty is to refuse to condone it, to explain that disruption is the opposite of that reform which is so vehemently demanded, and to expose fanaticism wherever it comes from. That students of today's Western societies should act out "La Chinoise" is understandable; but, ion this instance, that some colleagues should flatter them and egg them on is unforgivable
...explain anything to you,' she said, and walked quickly back to a tree." Willingly suspending her disbelief, the girl was led off towards the highway by the man. He said they would go on a journey together. She, being impressionable, but not stupid, thought to fend him off with a stock plagiarism, "You look about as much like my grandmother as Calvin Coolidge looks like the MGM lion." He, cleverly, ignored her. She, feeling somewhat naked, had no choice but to go with him. The idea is in the mood. They spoke. Albion Moonlight...
...explain his interest in investigating marijuana's diverse effects, he cited the research recorded in the American Journal of Psychiatry's September, 1968 Supplement. This supplement reports experimental studies of marijuana and the results of practicing physicians...
...Vonnegut sees this, not as the unit of man's work that turns out to be the most meaningful, but rather as the unit of man's hopeless groping for meaning that finally runs out on him. Yes, his characters do come up with sentences that explain their purpose in life, sentences which send us, the readers, into chuckles of heart-warmed complacency when we discover them; but Vonnegut's people never stop hoping for a better explanation of what's happening...
...throughout the book we are constantly aware of the whole, the governing force that determines all the happenings of the story, the answer to the suggestion Malachi Constant makes to explain his own good luck--"I guess somebody up there likes...