Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strippers hastened to explain that they didn't peel any more. They just did "exotic numbers," "bacchanales" or "veil dances." But it looked much like the public disrobing of old, although not quite as thorough. One night, when the cops warned Stripper Georgia Sothern to watch her bumps, she replied: "Those are fake bumps, honey." The cops went away...
...deep in the fight to take and keep controls off business, cried: "A cynical stunt ... a damned fool thing to do." Senator Robert A. Taft swiftly announced that "two or three typical steel leaders " would be called on the carpet of Congress' Joint Economic Committee this week to explain their action...
Retorted Robert Charbonneau, Montreal writer and publisher: "Let the facts talk. If Americans do not like literature, how then explain the success of writers like Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Thomas Wolfe, Eugene O'Neill...
Says he: "I find strength, not in books, not in reasoning, nor even in feeling, but in prayer alone. ... I feel Jesus' presence. I can't explain it because it's supernatural and I can't put it into words. . . . Look at the works, see the results. In 1944 I traveled through Italy without making any arrangements. With no money. There were no trains. No regular bus routes. I never arrived late at a single lecture. That can't be coincidence for a whole year. It's Jesus that does...
...Malicious Childhood. Eisenstein developed a theory to explain these unfortunate deviations toward bourgeois art. They were, said he, tag ends of ideas and impressions left over from pre-revolutionary childhood. Eisenstein's sage advice to Soviet artists: "We must master the Lenin-Stalin method of perception . . . to overcome all remnants or survivals of former notions which . . . are obstinately and maliciously attempting to infiltrate into our works as soon as our creative vigilance is weakened even for only a single moment...