Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face of these facts, Mitchel Field's airmen were hard put to it to explain Mrs. Kramer's indictment. Some saw a glimmer of significance in the fact that the letter was printed as an exclusive story by Newsday, a bumptious local daily. Editor of Newsday is Alicia Patterson (Mrs. Harry Guggenheim) daughter of Captain Joseph Patterson, isolationist owner of the great New York Daily News...
...that the President had played them for suckers. Subsequent White House press conferences did not lessen that feeling. More than ever they became aware that he was patronizing them and answering bona fide questions with irritable wisecracks. He no longer took them into his confidence, no longer bothered to explain why he would not talk - merely shut them off. So they asked Secretary Steve Early to intercede...
Such a complex, of course, does not explain the act of murder. Many men, says Dr. Wertham, have matricidal impulses, never translate them into action. Instead they bury the desire in their subconscious, develop compulsion neuroses-a morbid dread of knives, persistent symbolic hand-washing, etc. If he had had a tendency toward ordinary forms of insanity, Gino might have killed himself instead of his mother. Or he might have withdrawn to the world of fantasy, developed schizophrenia...
...eliminate the food theories, Gregg fed all larvae the same kind of food, and all they could eat of it. The "social hormone" yet to be isolated is the only assumption, Gregg claims, that will explain his experiments. He believes that...
...marriage did harm enough to the mature Dickens; but the wound from which he never recovered was the six months he spent as a child in a ratty London warehouse, pasting labels on bottles. "Dickens' whole career was an attempt to digest these early shocks and hardships, to explain them to himself, to justify himself in relation to them, to give an intelligible and tolerable picture of a world in which such things could occur." Wilson demonstrates that the novels are powerful and bitter social criticism; that the Dickens character gallery contains ever more pitiless portraits of Victorian archetypes...