Word: explaines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noon Mass in the nursingschool dormitory of Boston College one Sunday this month, Father F. X. Shea let it be known that the subject of the sermon was pain. But instead of delivering a homily, he challenged his congregation of 27 students to explain what pain meant to them. "There's a lot to be gained in suffering, and a nurse can help a patient learn that," said one girl. "But does the God you believe in have a vested interest in pain, to make people grow by insights through pain?" challenged the priest. "We make most...
...have red flags flying from the roof. I explain to a cop on the sidewalk below that these stand for revolution, not for Communism. He says yes, he remembers reading something about that...
...their mind-stretching efforts to explain the universe, cosmologists have been troubled by a glaring inconsistency: the universe behaves as if it is much more massive than it appears...
Patriotic Piety. Case histories explain everything except cases, and genius. White had always written. At first he turned out light, brittle novels (signed "James Aston" to protect his teaching job), then a successful paste-up from his hunting and fishing diaries. His biographer, who never met him, overstates his seeming ease of production; in her portrait, he is an amiable but absent-mirded fowl who every now and then discovers that he has produced an egg. At any rate, in 1938, at the age of 32, White produced The Sword in the Stone, an evocation of "the 12th century...
...must have been one of the issues of the Crimson that I missed that announced the sale (or renting) of the front page of the Harvard Crimson to Robert F. Kennedy '48, for the duration of the campaign season. Surely such a transaction would explain the extraordinary bias the Crimson has shown in the past week...