Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prose. But he is also the man who puts on his gown in order to hear music better; and who, on being asked whether he understands the Latin that has just been spoken, unhesitatingly replies, "Of course. But act as though I weren't acquainted with it and explain to me what it means...
...that he and his fellow "small nations" print Premier Nagy's last broadcast words: "I should like in these last moments to ask the leaders of the Revolution, if they can, to leave the country. . . They should turn to all the peoples of the world for help and explain that today it is Hungary and tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, it will be the turn of other countries because the imperialism of Moscow does not know borders, and is only trying to play for time...
...hectoring manner of Marxist argument: "You're afraid of the fact that pain is an inevitable adjunct of life, for man as he is at the moment. That fear even leads you to deny the very existence of God Himself. Oh, you don't have to explain. I was brought up to that kind of nonsense, and I can repeat all the arguments in my sleep...
Trouble is that nothing conclusive connects the germ with the disease. (A dozen better-understood diseases have been attributed to microbes that were later proved not guilty.) If MS is laid to infection, it becomes almost impossible to explain why it so rarely attacks both husband and wife, or both of identical twins. Said the National Multiple Sclerosis Society guardedly: now that Bacteriologist Ichelson has published her long-awaited method for cultivating the spirochetes, other scientists can check whether they are really found only in MS victims. If so, an effective treatment might still be years away...
...this excellent new biography Author Langford, an associate professor of English at the University of Texas, traces Porter's roller-coaster life and attempts to explain the contradictions of his personality. He was born in Greensboro, N.C., a year after the Civil War began, the son of a country doctor who neglected his practice to spend his time trying to build a perpetual-motion machine. Even by the standards of the Reconstruction South, the Porters were desperately poor, and at 19 Will went to Texas as the guest of another doctor who was worried...