Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps these two comments- one from one of TIME'S own editors, one from a famous editor looking in from outside-explain far more clearly than I could ever do it one of the things that makes TIME'S way of reporting the news different...
Saint-Exupéry then proceeds to explain numerous other things to grownups. Grounded in the Sahara, he is awakened by a little prince-"a most extraordinary small person," with "an odd little voice." Pipes the prince: "If you please-draw me a sheep!" Saint-Exupéry instinctively complies (his naive little sketches are part of the book) and the little prince's autobiography unfolds...
...soothe touchy, egoistic General de Gaulle, to explain once more the harsh realities of North Africa, was General Catroux's problem. As mediator between De Gaulle and Giraud, astute General Catroux at times had taken on greater stature than either of the two leaders. Certainly he understood some things that his chief...
Techniques and Truths in Wartime. The democratic governments have had to explain themselves to their people, and to retain public approval of their conduct of the war, through the medium of a press, in Britain and in America, intensely, sometimes childishly, jealous of its independence. These governments have likewise had to undertake political warfare, i.e. propaganda, with the aid of information men who by habit and training have no party-or perhaps the other party-and prefer breaking a story to following a line...
Universal Knowledge. "Holy is lucidity," as an English writer once put it, "and the mind that dare explain." Men are now dying not to win a negative "peace" but to bring about a more lawful, and therefore a more intelligently dynamic, world. Knowledge does not necessarily breed affection, nor affection justice; but in each case, it helps. The responsibilities of those who win and survive this war will not end with feeding famished people but with letting them in on the learning, both humane and technical, that enriches peace...