Word: explained
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...what lay ahead. Despite their studied nonchalance, the Czechoslovak people pressed their leaders hard not to compromise. Thousands of them lined up to sign copies of a manifesto, written by Playwright Pavel Kohout and printed in the journal Literární Listy, which exhorted the leaders to "act, explain and unanimously defend the way that we have entered and do not in tend to leave while we live." Along with the manifesto, the journal's editors ran a cartoon showing a gargantuan figure of Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev frantically pouring buckets of water on a tiny bungalow...
...British, of course, have tried to explain their national sport to Americans from time to time. After all, the colonials lived under their various majesties for almost two centuries. Indeed, history records that as late as 1859, some 25,000 people dutifully turned out to witness a cricket match in Hoboken, N.J. Still, most Americans have some difficulty understanding a game in which 1) the batter wears gloves while all but one of the fielders are barehanded, 2) runs are scored in dozens or even hundreds, 3) it takes 20 outs to end one "innings," and 4) the whole thing...
...robe with white wings and you have white angels who wear white robes with white wings. They too have bond hair and blue eyes. I can remember very vividly how my mother used to tell me all about the hangups of life. She would sit me down sometimes and explain from the scripture, "Christ had hair like unto that of sheep's wool and as white as snow," she would say. "The hair of all Black people turns white at an old age (what we call gray hair)." She would go on to say that only the hair of Blacks...
Ultimate Purge. Newsmen have never been allowed to put penetrating questions to government officials. Instead, the routine suggestion is: "Please explain your program to the viewers." Where Gaullist drum beating is given plenty of time, opposition leaders are permitted to appear only fleetingly, and usually in a background still photo while a droning announcer reads their carefully edited words. On his return to France recently, Georges Bidault said at a press conference: "I ask you to vote against the Communists and against the Gaullists." Later, French radio quoted him as saying only: "I ask you to vote against Communism...
When General Sherman explains that his war is different fsom European wars because "we are fighting a hostile people whereas they fought among armies," this is not a scholarly, but, ultimately, a complete analysis of the reasons for which the Civil War is regarded as the first modern war. Sherman's march was the first "strategic rape" and it took a poet to explain it in those perfect words so the political scientists could adopt it later as a crude hypothesis to be refined. Both accounts are equally important, but Babe as a playwright is justified in only employing...