Word: explainer
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...with their parents and teachers. "This has been sort of a crazy week around here," he admitted. Given that this was an especially brainy gathering, he jokingly asked if anybody could help him get a handle on things. "I was hoping," he said, "maybe one of the scholars could explain chaos theory...
...captive, the judge both loves Esmeralda and hates the love she makes him feel. Frollo's aria, Hellfire, is a clashing symphony of red and black: crimson-shrouded ghosts line his way to a raging hearth, where he shouts out his twisted passion. This one will be hard to explain to the kids. But then Disney animation, from Snow White to The Lion King, is a parade of grim fairy tales about death, separation, betrayal. Hunchback has new traumas for the little ones; they will be terrified, perplexed, mesmerized...
...hope that the Harvard Commencement crowd was as enthusiastic as the Amherst Reunion crowd in giving all due recognition to Hal Varmus for his achievements and his leadership, not to mention his ability to explain complex scientific principles to the less-conversant, which apparently includes the Crimson editorial staff. --James W. Greene Amherst Class...
William Julius Wilson's books, says Bill Clinton, "made me see race and poverty and the problems of the inner city in a different light." Indeed, no thinker has done more than the 60-year-old sociologist to explain why the black underclass sank into such misery and isolation at the same time millions of other African Americans were escaping from the ghetto to create a vibrant middle class...
MADISON, Wisconsin: Scientists have found ordinary vinegar in a stellar cloud 25,000 light years from earth, a discovery that may help explain the formation of life. Radio astronomers from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, found faint traces of vinegar, or acetic acid, in a cloud of gas and dust named Sagittarius B2 North. Ammonia was discovered in interstellar space more than 25 years ago, which makes it plausible, according to one of the scientists on the Illinois team, that molecules of ammonia and acetic acid linked up to form basic amino acid. Amino acids, which are the basic...