Word: explaines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...combative dialogue was not hard to explain. With the Oregon primary this week and the California primary June 4, the Democratic contest was nearing a possible shakedown. In the past, McCarthy has genially admitted that he and Kennedy are not far apart on basic issues, but last week he associated the New Yorker with the "disastrous" policies that led to the war. "Those policies were not merely the product of specific misjudgments," he said. "Rather, they grew from a systematic misconception of America and its role in the world. I am not convinced that Senator Kennedy has entirely renounced that...
Humphrey has gone to great lengths to explain exactly what he means by the happiness slogan-slightly dressed up as "the spirit of public happiness"-and maintained that the phrase had been written by a bona fide founding father, no less. Though the Library of Congress has not been able to trace the quote, a Humphrey aide said that he thought John Adams had put the words in a letter to Thomas Jefferson. His source: Gene McCarthy, who once used the phrase in his own speeches...
...desperation, I had an interview with Charles Geer. Geer is president of the Boston chapter of SIMS, a student at Harvard Business School, and a likeable, earnest person. I asked him if he could explain why I, and others, hadn't been successful at meditation. Jerry Jarvis said the technique was a simple, mechanical matter, and he had assured prospective meditators that anyone would benefit from...
RATHER than admit that Jarvis misrepresents the case for meditation, he never warns people that "psychological attitudes" are important and can prevent success, or even that anyone prevent success, or even that anyone might be initiated and then stop meditating. Geer tried to explain my objections as "misinterpretations" of Jarvis' words...
...matters. The industry cliche of the month is "tell it like it is." The National Education Television network and individual stations in at least three U.S. cities have worked up programs using variants of that phrase for a title. One production is aimed at the Negro audience; the others explain the ghettos' problems to the white world. CBS is preparing a history and cultural series tracing the U.S. Negro back to the time of the slave traders. ABC last week announced a sixpart exploration of racism in the U.S. Next fall on NBC, Bell Telephone will drop its music...