Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most widely held theory, to explain this year's spurt, is a search for outdoor sport to break the winter grind with the books. "Studies are cramping," says Grace Tuttle '49. "Even on a nearby ski slope, college seems miles away." There's nothing like it to restore tired tissues after a round of examinations, says Betty Crowley '49. And Georgette Haigh '49 thinks that skiing provides the balance between study and recreation that is demanded by the new type of college girl...
...pitiless white glare of stage lighting-never sunlight or moonlight-and his actors move and speak with exaggerated force. These devices, skillfully employed, make Koerner's paintings more arresting than those of such established U.S. realists as Philip Evergood and Ben Shahn. But they are not enough to explain his disturbing power. Koerner's storytelling art is one of implication, and its very theatricalism serves to imply that the "real" world which man has made is equally a fabric of illusions...
...Sikh refugees from Moslem hate and murder, pouring into Delhi and other Indian cities, clamored for revenge. The militant Hindu organization Mahasabha (Great Society), to which Gandhi's assassin belonged, worked to make Indiaa purely Hindu state. Patel gave some encouragement to the extremists, which may partly explain why, at Gandhi's funeral, his head was bowed...
...Right to Be Rich. Authors Case & Case do not examine intently enough the reasons for Chautauqua's rapid decline (the explanations advanced-the advent of good roads, movies and radio-might explain a falling-off, but not a collapse). But they tell just how the system worked and a good deal about the performers who took to the "man-killing" circuits (seven days a week, often for three months) during the summer heat. William Jennings Bryan was Chautauqua's top attraction for a quarter-century, sometimes drew over 10,000 customers...
Kluckhohn concluded with a plea to applied social scientists that they not be "taken in " by a system of cultural stereotypes, any more than they would believe that there is something called "human nature" that will explain all man's actions...