Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hidden Key. To explain Hawthorne's curious bent in terms of heredity and the "Puritan conscience" means next to nothing; there were hundreds of other young New Englanders in the 1820s and '30s who grew up with a similar inheritance. The key is hidden somewhere in the peculiarities of Hawthorne's boyhood or in those of his years of self-imposed solitude in Salem. As a child, Hawthorne was temporarily crippled. His widowed mother was a virtual recluse and patently neurotic. At 21 he returned from Bowdoin College to Salem and himself developed into a kind...
...walks by himself, ate meals by himself, published the few pieces he was able to publish anonymously or under an assumed name. "Not many writers," says Editor Arvin in his introduction, "worked so long amid such a hush or in such a shadow." Hawthorne's literary interests hardly explain the hush and shadow, although the hush and shadow go far to explain his literary interests...
...four lectures last week at the University of Chicago, Schönberg tried to explain, among other things, what his music was up to. Sample: "I always attempted to produce something quite conventional, but I failed and it always, against my will, became something unusual. How right, then, is a music lover who refuses to appreciate music which even the composer did not want to write...
What about Britain? Stumpy Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, hurried to Washington to explain that his people had already cut the size of their bread loaf, might be forced to ration bread. Before departing, he agreed to a second 200,000-ton cut in the allocation of North American grain to Britain...
Campbell was nowhere near so adventurous when, during a visit at an Eskimo camp, he was offered a wife for the night. That offer (rejected) illustrates his theme: "The Eskimo is communistic-he shares everything. He shares his sled, his dogs and his wife. He does not explain life. He lives...