Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...provocative title suggests, Ignatiev's project is explaining the process of this transformation along with the concomitant results for black as well as white America prior to the Civil War. In an effort to synthesize ethnic studies with Afro-American studies and labor history, he has also taken on the formidable task of examining the political, social and intellectual history which confirmed discrimination along color lines after blacks had begun to form a middle class. It's not enough that scholarship from the likes of Peter Wood and Kenneth Stampp established that slavery itself was market driven; Ignatiev also wants...
...over yet, but if the bigger package evaporates, one thing seems certain. It will take more than what Gingrich calls the G.O.P.'s "transitional communications strategy" to explain why 12 months of shouting and standoffs now amounts to so little...
...also a beginning of sorts. Faced with the existence of these planets, astronomers must now revise their theories to fit the new facts. To begin with, theorists have to scramble to explain how the 51 Pegasi planet could have formed and survived intact so close to its parent star. The planet around 70 Virginis is also problematic: its orbit is egg-shaped rather than circular, which suggests to some astronomers that it formed more like a star than like a planet. Indeed, many experts think it is technically a brown dwarf--a star that never got big enough to ignite...
...Natchez in particular, the growth has been emotional as well as professional. He has to grope for words when he describes his music. It's always difficult to explain the dynamics of a personal evolution...
...about learning music until I was 13. That's a tough age to pick up a new language. For me, music's one of the hardest things...Even sort of more abstract, sort of learned stuff, like math, that's easier for me," he sighs as he tries to explain...