Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Evgraf, Zhivago's brother, appears once every 150 pages and plays his spasmodic role as a brother's keeper. Pasha, who left his family to become a military commander for the Communists, must explain his love, excuse his motivation, justify his life, and shoot himself in ten pages. These two men offered Zhivago a serious intellectual challenge--service out of love, and service out of duty. But Zhivago fails to come to terms with either concept, and Pasternak abets...
Legislator Bruffett, who does his school-teaching in Bradleyville (pop. 69), would allow universities -but not high schools -to teach evolution as a theory, if it were "made clear that the only true account of Creation is the Biblical account." Texts used in Missouri high schools and colleges explain that life evolved from one-celled organisms, and they will most likely continue to do so. Missouri's back-country-dominated house of representatives may pass Bruffett's bill, but it stands virtually no chance of survival in the more sophisticated senate. Said a state school official wearily...
...daredevil with unruly flaxen hair and polka-dot bowtie. In eight lusty years, lead-footed Mike punished cars, survived six serious accidents -and last October became the first world champion in British racing history. Two months later moody Mike abruptly retired from racing, said: "I can't properly explain all the reasons, even to myself...
Echoes & Repercussions. Because of the worldwide repercussions, both President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles took pains to explain that there had been no change in policy. At that, some of the press compounded the press's fault by blaming it all on Dulles (he was "maladroit," tch-tched the Times), and charging that he was backing away from his press-conference position...
Like the 21-in. image on the television tube, TV news commentary lacks depth. The big eye can survey, but it runs into trouble when it tries to interpret or explain. Last week, in an unsponsored effort to supply TV news coverage with the rare dimension, the Columbia Broadcasting System introduced a news program designed to examine more than the profile of big events: Behind the News with Howard K. Smith...