Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These are the statistics of failure--a failure as drastic as it is widespread. The immediate reason for the failure is, of course, the increase in the birth rate along with the fall in the death rate. But this does not explain the problem, since almost all countries with critical illiteracy problems have introduced compulsory elementary education. In fact, such laws are usually among the first passed when a former colony gains independence...
...EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). "This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is the Massage" employs the medium of television to explain-or at least spotlight-some of the communications philosopher's controversial ideas. Repeat...
...published the testimony of a U.S. handwriting specialist that the signature was indeed Lübke's. The country's restless students seized on the white-haired old man as a symbol of all that they find wrong with West Germany. University professors called on him to explain, and Der Stern's Editor in Chief Henri Nannen hounded him to resign. The irony was that Nannen himself was accused of having been a strong follower of Hitler during the Nazi period...
...best-known work, On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (1799), Schleiermacher answered that faith is not based on doctrine or reason but upon man's "feeling of absolute dependence" and what he called "a sense and taste for the Infinite." Man, he argued, could never define or explain God, only his own experience of the divine. To Schleiermacher, church doctrines were primarily articulations of religious feelings, and he scandalized German Protestantism in his early writings by coolly appraising Christianity not as a faith with a unique monopoly on truth but simply as "the highest and purest...
...President of East House, I would like to explain that the Crimson article of March 4, 1968 presented an inaccurate account of the present financial status of the House. We can now state that 80% of our girls have paid their dues. We regret the implication that East House in particular suffers from a back of activities and interest. President of East House Ruth Moscovitch...