Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold glass eye of Ansel Adams' camera, however, recorded precisely what it saw. The results helped explain why, since the perfection of photography, artists have come to scorn "naturalism" in painting, and wandered off into the bypaths of impressionism, abstraction and surrealism. When it came to making unbelievable realities believable, the camera had it all over the brush...
Through tears that just welled up and kept coming, she tried to explain at the banquet how she felt about her popularity...
...Hecht tells how the scientists discovered that atoms are made up of smaller particles, including the notorious neutron, which can slip into an atom's nucleus. Once Dr. Hecht has the reader aware of neutrons, he finds it easy to explain how some atoms can be disrupted by neutron infiltration, loosing a gush of energy...
...life in peaceful obscurity, farming, and educating her ten children (TIME, Oct. 21, 1940). She herself never went to school much, "owing to the cold, and not warm enough clothing." But last week she did try her unschooled hand at an article (in the New York Times Magazine) to explain how she goes about painting. The Times printed it just as she wrote it. Excerpt...
...catalogue introduction, Sterne tried to explain how it happened: "My renaissance," he wrote, "took place about three years ago. ... I was too ill to work and was admiring my view from the porch; the incoming tide, the crimson and orange and gold of the sunset, the delicate nuances . . . when suddenly, nature ceased to be nature and became a wet painting. This sensation was so real, that when a sea gull suddenly soared across my vision, I exclaimed, 'The fool! Its lovely white wings will be smeared with paint...