Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KTBC's far-flung service earned the widest applause. "We are not normally a blood-and-guts operation," Spelce hastened to explain afterwards. "This is a state government, state university-conscious town. It was the first time in years we have shown a closeup of a dead body." But, he also said, "this was a highly unusual...
...child's answers. Example: one picture shows three geometric shapes, with the underline: "Which is the triangle?" The set, now used in some Head Start programs, will be sold door-to-door this fall along with Compton's Encyclopedia. Though overpriced, First Adventures can help parents explain to the child, in terms that he can understand, some ideas that he should have by the time he starts school...
Dancing Hand. "I am the oldest living active musician," Casals reflected last week, puffing on his crooked pipe. "I can't explain why; just say that it is a privilege that has been given to me." During the festival a doctor friend checked the cellist, pronounced him sound but advised him to take it easy. Small chance. Casals, who today lives in Puerto Rico with his attractive 29-year-old wife Martita, receives as many as 250 visitors a day, spends the rest of his time rehearsing and answering the hundreds of letters from well-wishers...
...mapping of light and dark solves at least one meteorological mystery. During violent dust storms, no dust ever gets into the dark areas. Sometimes dust comes right up to a dark area and appears to bounce back suddenly. This would be difficult to explain if the dark areas were lowlands, Pollack said. But it fits perfectly if the dark areas are high plateaus which turn away dust streams
Died. Daisetz Suzuki, 95, one of Japan's leading philosophers and sages of Zen Buddhism; of a mesenteric thrombosis; in Tokyo. The mere act of trying to explain it is contrary to Zen, yet in lectures at Yale, Columbia and Harvard and in some 30 books in English (An Introduction to Zen Buddhism), Suzuki struggled tirelessly to instruct reason-worshiping Westerners in the Zen principle of suspending reason in order to gain a glimpse of eternity, profoundly influencing scores of intellectuals from Aldous Huxley to J. D. Salinger...