Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What has happened to the vaunted objectivity of scientists like Desmond Morris? According to your review, his book purporting to explain the development of man from apes [Jan. 26] raises two or more questions for each one it claims to answer...
...believe it was written by Joyce's brother. Or possibly Joyce dictated it to his brother. This would explain the difference in the handwriting...
...many cases, such "inside" information reflects a broker's rationalization, a story confected for customers to account for a swing in paper profits. Or it follows a line laid down by overnight experts-financial writers required to fill columns of type with solemn economic logic to explain short-term market moves that may reflect neither economics nor logic. Too often, day-to-day stock gyrations obscure a basic fact: markets are made and moved over the long haul, not by vague forces but by the conscious decisions of men. The important question is not what makes stocks move...
...methane simulating Jupiter's atmosphere. Besides producing amino acids and other organic materials that have led experimenters to speculate that primitive life could exist in the Jovian atmosphere, the discharges created large quantities of a translucent, ruby-red organic dye. This dye, the scientists speculate, may well explain the mark on Jupiter's surface, 30,000 miles long and 8,000 miles wide, that astronomers call the Great Red Spot...
Struggling Keys. Nielsen's relative isolation during his working years in Denmark helps to explain his early obscurity. But at the same time, that remoteness enhanced his originality. Such composers as Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, who were working in the late romantic tradition, projected their explosive forms out of subjective, often agonized emotion. Nielsen's free-flowing counterpoint and virile rhythms sprang partly from Danish folk roots, partly from a robust, wholesome objectivity. "What business have other people with my innermost feelings?" he asked...