Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...propaganda meeting. Actors play on the stage; each scene is against the Central government. . . . Two young men jump up and point their revolvers at our chests. After one hour of inquisition we are free to go. But before we have gone far we are ordered back. . . . We try to explain that the road is very bad and we will not reach our destination. "Not your, but our, destination is important," says a hard-looking young man who is sitting on a bed, almost naked and smoking a cigarette. Finally the young man snarls...
...warhorses--apathy, procrastination, plain indifference--can be trotted out to explain the pitifully low returns. And the new rationalizations--late veterans checks, post-Yale poverty, plain forgetfulness--can very easily be used to explain away neglect of pledges. Five thousand dollars worth of these pledges are still unfulfilled, and, in a last-minute drive to catch up with wayward pledge-makers, the Council has offered an easy out--contributions from University coupon books. Lack of ready cash is no longer an adequate plea. The Council's Service Fund relieves everyone from the irk-some chore of wallet-reaching or door...
...book out last week, called Poetics of Music (Harvard; $2.50), Igor Stravinsky tried to explain how he does write music. He found it hard to be explicit, but he did succeed in being unromantic. Wrote he: "This appetite [for composing] is not at all a fortuitous thing like inspiration, but as habitual and periodic ... as a natural need." Stravinsky prefers to call himself an inventor rather than a composer. "For the act of invention implies the necessity of a lucky find. ... A composer improvises aimlessly, the way an animal grubs about. . . . I suddenly stumble upon something unexpected. At the proper...
Next, the two Yale researchers tried bees, which have much more complex reactions. The bees acted like the cockroaches, crawling frustrated outside a heat-transparent window with sweet-smelling honey vapor behind it. Apparently both cockroaches and bees could smell vapors at a distance from their antennae. This may explain how certain creatures, such as male moths seeking their females, seem able to detect odors far downwind...
Miss Latson takes pains to explain that Leverett House is dubbed the "bunny hutch" from its coat of arms, "and not for any other reason...