Word: explained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...class was taught by a prof who combined the intellectual clarity of Immanuel Kant with the accent of Sgt. Schulz. This professor liked to verbally footnote his lectures, and as the semester wore on he dwelled at length on the logical niceties of increasingly obscure proofs, often forgetting to explain what he was trying to prove...
...United States that can cover the same range," boasts Rosovsky. Bok describes the faculty as the "building block on which everything else rests." Harvard's president has a time trying to stand on that block. In one of his first meetings with the faculty, Bok began to explain his view of the role of the university. From the back row came a whisper: "We are the university." Observers such as John Rosenblum, dean of the University of Virginia's business school, marvel at "how little power Derek Bok has" to deal with these baronial scholars. Bok acknowledges the situation: "Nothing...
...title Demon Box refers to Physicist James Clerk Maxwell's colorful explanation of perpetual motion. In the book Maxwell's model is used by a California therapy guru, fictionalized as Dr. Klaus Woofner, to explain human behavior. Kesey the globe trotter and spiritual joker seems entranced. But Kesey the planter of corn and milker of cows presents Woofner as another psycho-alchemist trying to turn a metaphor into a 14-karat gimmick. The point is made admiringly by one skilled fancifier to another. After all, the charlatan, like the artist, exploits illusion and a sense of mystery. Behind the plow...
...explain what we mean to the average Joe Six-pack," she said. "We've got to move from the scholars to people whose lives are actually threatened...
...said he could not explain why other government officials said hijackers had been killed...