Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betty Fitzgerald, Radcliffe '48, will explain the work of the Conference as a background for the organization plan. Miss Fitzgerald was a delegate to the Conference, and together with Alice Gilbert, Radcliffe '49, she is co-chairman of the forum. The second speaker will be Clifton F. Wharton, Jr. '47, who will describe the national scope of NSO's activities...
More than one plain-spoken journalist has found his phrases turning fuzzy trying to explain Henry Wallace. Some basic amorphous quality of mind & manner in Wallace has defied definition, by either swooning admirers or exasperated critics...
President Ray A. Goldberg '48 will conduct the meeting, and Gordon W. Hedin '46, new chairman Brooks Committee, will explain the workings of his group. At the same time the Speakers and Entertainment Committee will meet prospective members and provide refreshments and entertainment for the entire gathering...
...then, should a world-minded university teach history? Britain's famed Historian Arnold Toynbee answered: "To explain the history of your country or my country, the smallest unit that one can take into account is Western Christendom. . . . But it, too, turns out to be inadequate. . . . Western Christendom is merely one of five civilizations that survive in the world today [the others: Orthodox Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Far Eastern]. . . . Within the last four hundred years all five have been brought into contact with each othe. . .as a result of successive expansions. . . . [We historians] must make the necessary effort of imagination...
Parson Button, 46, is a forthright, husky man who looks more like a vice president than a clergyman. As he sees it, his first duty-"or, rather, privilege"-will probably be helping out small, impoverished New England churches of all denominations. The good Baptist Smith brothers explain the anomalous Button job thus: "We spend lots of time trying to figure out ways of helping the community and the state. We are employing an efficiency expert in religion just the same as we'd employ any other efficiency expert. We don't expect to sell, any more shoes because...