Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the square dances are open to anyone who can raise the 60 cents admission, the actual "outings" are limited to club members, but Bryant hastens to explain that HOC membership is open to any member of the University...
Morals & Techniques. Stimson and Roosevelt discussed the matter on March 15, 1945. That was their last conference. The next time Stimson went to the White House he went to explain the whole titanic undertaking to a man "whose only previous knowledge of our activities was that of a Senator who had loyally accepted our assurance that the matter must be kept a secret from...
...Divine Dance. "People mustn't think this is a phony," said she. "I am an Episcopalian." This church, however, would be "universal, nonsectarian." Dancer St. Denis hoped to get ministers in to preach guest-sermons; she would preach herself; and she and a "rhythmic choir" would explain things further by dancing.* Mystical-minded, dead-earnest St. Denis had often toyed with such a project before, but nothing much ever came of it. "I want now to work for God and nothing else," said she. ". . . Joyously I will dance the measures of the Eternal music, and the Geometry...
...will write books on the new idea of God to suit the way people live; induce faith in astrology so as to make not the will, but the stars, responsible for sins; he will explain guilt away psychologically as repressed sex, make men shrink in shame if their fellow men say they are not broad-minded and liberal ; he will identify tolerance with indifference to right and wrong, truth and error; he will spread the lie that men will never be better until they make society better and thus have selfishness to provide fuel for the next revolution ; he will...
...Japanese, it fell heir to an unsolved mystery. On a reef off the east coast of the dot-on-the-map island are a great stone fortress and 50 artificial islets. Ponape natives call it Nanmatol, but they shun it superstitiously and have only the flimsiest traditions to explain why people built...