Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uncovered, the least influential was schools facilities, so long used as the criterion of quality education. According to the Report, school facilities are substantially the same in all schools, minority and majority, across the country. Per pupil expenditure, curricula, all the physical trappings of education, simply do not explain why Negro children leave city schools as near-illiterates...
Bonhoeffer has had a great influence on modern theological thought, Harvey G. Cox, associate professor of Church and Society in the Divinity School said yesterday, because of his affirmative view of the secular elements of society. He tantalizes present-day theologians because he died before he was able to explain some of his phrases, such as "religionless Christianity...
...Much Guff. Johnson, who had spent the previous two days doing his best to explain why in hard-hitting speeches at eight U.S. military bases around the nation, managed to appear unruffled. Leaving the church, Lady Bird chirped a noncommittal "Wonderful choir." Smiling stiffly, the President shook hands with Lewis, mumbled "Thank you" and departed. Titillated by the event, Washington reporters in vented a slew of mock news bulletins and tacked them to a White House bulletin board. "President Johnson," said one, "announced late Sunday he has commissioned Artist Peter Hurd to paint a portrait...
...opening program was typical of Munch's cautious adventurousness: Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, Debussy's La Mer and Stravinsky's recent, brief Requiem Canticles. At 76, Munch brought a remarkably youthful enthusiasm to the podium; and this, as much as anything, may explain the new era of clarity, precision and musicianship reborn in Paris through its new orchestra. As one astounded member noted after a rehearsal, some of the men even take their music home to practice...
This hint of nihilism in his death, helps explain the emotional flood it called forth from American poets. Some of the tributes are extravagant. "His poems give you a feel of a time, our time, as no other poetry of our century dies," James Dickey says. Even when Jarrell was in college, Ransom writes, "you knew that he had to become one of the important people in the literature of our time." Robert Watson is more to the point when he says, Randall Jarrell "looked open-eyed at the delights and horrors or our time...