Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact omitted from your article is needed to explain how the business affiliates of the N.F.U. organization have accumulated so much money so very fast. The answer is that the $33 million Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association, the $75 million Farmers Union Central Exchange and other cooperatives wearing the N.F.U. label pay little or no federal income tax. Other businesses of similar magnitude...
...great day for the Irish (and for everyone else) when they decided to write as well as fight. Irish society-provincial yet picturesque, with its deep conflicts between Celtic and Anglo-Saxon ways, between priesthood and peasantry, its sense of tragedy and the merciless compulsion of its members to explain themselves literately at the top of their voices-is itself a book already half-written. These days there is nothing like the Troubles going on in Ireland, but there is still a spot of trouble-enough for a headline or two and many a novel. The latest, A Terrible Beauty...
...Huxley stories in the collection bring out the spite without heat that is his peculiar intellectual climate. If there is one central virtue in his art it is that his creatures have the capacity to explain themselves: the central defect is that they have the compulsion to explain themselves away. Huxley rarely creates a character that he does not destroy...
...English professors who recall that once upon a time an undergraduate grabbed one of their colleagues by the lapels and demanded some sort of satisfaction for an obvious injustice. Each department has a favorite explanation of its own, but professors are usually agreed that the necessity of having to explain, or even defend, a grade is an upsetting procedure...
...attitude might be justified. A senior who has spent many months on his thesis deserves the benefit of discussing it with the grader. And if the senior is unhappy about his grade, then the professor, who believes he has graded the senior fairly, should be more than glad to explain the mark and answer the student's questions as best...