Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forty RUS members gathered in Cabot Hall to hear Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting and nine other Trustees explain why the Trustees have turned down four student attempts to present an acceptable RUS constitution...
Improbable Probability. To explain why, Judge Raymond Sullivan attached a four-page appendix to his opinion that carried the necessary math far beyond the relatively simple formula of probability. Judge Sullivan was willing to assume it was unlikely that such a couple as the one described existed. But since such a couple did exist-and the Collinses demonstrably did exist-there was a perfectly acceptable mathematical formula for determining the probability that another such couple existed. Using the formula and the prosecution's figure of 12 million, the judge demonstrated to his own satisfaction and that of five concurring...
...adding commentary to frame the picture in proper perspective. But the crush of hme leaves little time for reflection. "As journalists," says CBS's Eric Sevareid, "we are not keeping pace with realities; we report them but we do not truly understand them, so we do not really explain. Our problem is to find the techniques that will balance the spot news and the spot picture and put them in proportion." Until then, viewers must make their own judgments based on the realization that the news in pictures is not the whole picture...
Although the Quincy photographers allude lightly to the "Brandeis Exhibit," they would have done better to explain what they share with that exhibit--the theme, the American social landscape and the technique, 35mm camera usually with a 35mm lens. The point is to familiarize the timid viewer with what you are doing and to suggest what to look...
...hotel on the beach. And he uses the camera to stop simple, clearly defined portraits so we can study them--a tree in a field, a man reading the paper on his bed. Some of his work is so abstract, however, that he has to draw a diagram to explain the lines of direction. But the purpose of a photograph ought to be clear. To be ambiguous, to suggest several ideas is fine; but a photo shouldn't be intentionally difficult...