Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peaceable childhood in a world of certainty. My mother was the type of person who would endlessly answer the repeated questions "why" asked by all her children. My father was the type of person who would sit with his children and explain away their fear of the dark. In these and many other ways, my parents showed us not to be afraid of things that we did not understand. They provided us with a broader perspective on the things that we saw happening around us. They created a foundation from which we ourselves would eventually analyze and understand the world...
Rudenstine said he feels that the University should "go out and do our best to explain to them [the Class of '60] why we think they could actually help the cause by giving the gift...
...cable has been disconnected for two weeks now. I'm beginning not feel so bad about the United States' inaction in Bosnia. That must seem like a non sequitur. Let me explain...
...citizens, I have received daily updates for the past few years on the progress of the genocide perpetrated against Muslim in Bosnia. Jennings, Rather and Brokaw have all been yelling about the killings, rapes and refugees. Current and former presidents have now gone on CNN, babbling about quagmire, to explain why the U.S. has complied with global inaction. The United Nations, MacNeil and Lehrer's favorite organization, became an accomplice to the destruction of one of its own members nations. I have had to watch all of this...
Newspapers have the space to place any situation, particularly this one, in context. Print journalists are now allowed to reason away diplomatic ineptitude as a consequence of this conflict's complexity. They explain who holds what territory and delve into the history books to note who has held that territory before. The main purpose of a newspaper, after all, is to rationalize even the most outrageous of events, fit them neatly into columns and write a first draft of that puzzle called history...