Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reassuring & Wooing. In Dulles' 20-day, ten-country tour of Asia, none of the calls could be called urgent; the Secretary's purpose was not to seek or to make new commitments but to explain U.S. policy, reassuring friends and wooing neutrals. He worked hard and well...
...kill him?" Answered Khrushchev: "What could we do? There was a reign of terror." It is conceivable that Russia's top leadership, seeking further claim to public esteem among Stalin's innumerable victims and their relatives, might yet admit having quietly "removed" the mad dictator. It would explain many things (e.g., the fantastic Doctors' Plot), but it still would not purge the shared guilt in old crimes...
...been a sometime thing. Man never has needed a highly developed color sense in order to get around, though he must see shapes fairly accurately, hence his color impressions tend to be comparatively dim, vague and intermittent, and to reproduce badly in the mind's eye. This helps explain why the French inventors of impressionism struck their contemporaries for a time as crazy. In subordinating form to color, they seemed to do violence to nature. And in picturing the sunny dazzle of daytime outdoors, they seemed to show a strident, eye-hurting, never-never land...
Ordinary readers can get help and enjoyment from the traditional critic who tells what impression a poem makes on him, Muir said. They glean nothing from the critic who says the poem cannot possibly mean what it seems to, and then proceeds to explain...
There is, simply, something which he cannot explain, something he sees in his affinity with the Romantics, which is for most readers inoperative. Even admitting that his voracious appetite for literary experience gives words a peculiar power, and that his "humdrum, prosaic happiness" of childhood makes the image of frozen nordic mythology powerful, even then I must doubt that many have experienced this thing which is at once unhappiness, grief and joy, for which he "would not exchange all the world's pleasures...