Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...administration is not quite ready to explain how they are doing it, but there is no doubt that the College of Arts and Sciences is getting stronger every year. One obvious factor has been the appointment of a more systematic admissions director, who was able to present a good case to the high schoolers for studying liberal arts at Lehigh. ("But how do principals and masters get to the point of recommending a certain college?" Dean Christensen asks. "I just don't know...
...humor and enthusiasm, efficiency and drive are inert elements in Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller's chemistry. The catalyst that makes them bubble: an irresistible urge to do big things. Laurance Rockefeller tries to explain it: "Nelson is always working on his environment...
...through this legal loophole, Denny Roberts is now plagued by party dissidence and public weariness with his erratic conduct in office. In the primary, Roberts had to run against his ambitious lieutenant governor, Armand H. Cote, won by only 11,000 votes. And hapless Governor Roberts still has to explain why he fired a telegram (also signed by ten other Governors) to Washington last February demanding a federal tax cut from President Eisenhower, while simultaneously asking his own Rhode Island taxpayers to cough up another $10 million...
...match de football. Reason for the outing is that Mama feels her first labor pains coming on, and since the boy still thinks that babies are bought from pushcart peddlers, it is prudent to post him elsewhere. In a scene of superb comic tenderness, Papa attempts to explain where children really come from, and bears up just fine until his relentlessly inquisitive child asks: "But, Papa, where do you plant the seed...
...nonascetic pastime he calls "yabyum,"*and it makes such fictional standbys as nude mixed bathing seem mid-Victorian. A yabyummy blonde compliantly strips to the buff to play the role of the "holy concubine" in the first of several "Zen Free Love Lunacy orgies." Rucksack Revolution. This may explain why Ray drags his sneakered feet a bit when the boys finally start climbing the Matterhorn in the Sierra Nevada. This climb, which occupies about a fourth of The Dharma Bums, is a writer's set piece, a hymn to nature. Kerouac's poetic imagery of towering snowscapes, frosty...