Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arbitrary: because the bursars' cards of resisters, picketers, and sympathizers alike were all turned over en masse, it was impossible for University officers and senior tutors to identify all the students who imprisoned the Dow representative. In addition, the students who were identified were given the chance to explain the exact nature of their involvement in the demonstration...
WASHINGTON'S scruffy Ambassador Theater, normally a pad for psychedelic frolics, was the scene of an unscheduled scatological solo last week in support of the peace demonstrations. Its anti-star was Author Norman Mailer, who proved even less prepared to explain Why Are We in Viet Nam? than his current novel bearing that title...
...solely on its pictorial value. Thus, in covering fires, wars and riots, all the cameras point in the same direction-toward where the action is. What could give the coverage distinction is an analysis of the action, but as servants of the tyranny of time, newscasters are compelled to explain only what can be crammed into a few scant minutes...
Baby Howitzers. Nowhere are these problems more critical than in Viet Nam. "This is really TV's first war," explains Edward Fouhy, head of CBS's Saigon bureau. "Men are fighting, getting wounded and dying. That has tremendous impact; but transmitted right into the living room, it can be quite out of context with the whole picture here. We're still trying to find the best way to cover it." In many cases, important stories that do not readily lend themselves to pictorial treatment-such as the economic and social rehabilitation of South Viet Nam-get little...
...Devil and his attendant demiurges. These take their supernatural business for granted, while, in contrast, many plain Soviet citizens are deprived of their Marxist grasp of material reality by the apparition of the Devil, and behave like lunatics. First the poet, then assorted officials, unhinged by their attempts to explain the inexplicable, wind up in the psychiatric center...