Word: explaining
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...historian, Miller tried to describ and explain the national spirit of the United States. His analysis of this spirit began with the Puritans, and he became famous for destroying the traditional conception of the Puritans as narrow-minded hypocrites. His books on early New England include Orthodoxy in Massachusetts (1933). The New England Mind (1939), Jonathan Edwards (1949), and Roger Williams...
...Your Essay, "Breaching the White Wall of Southern Justice" [April 15] is a responsible effort to explain a complicated problem. 1 was particularly interested in your discussion of segregated juries. One approach is to challenge them county by county in federal district courts. But this is slow, costly and painful. With Phillip Burton of California and Joseph Remick of New York, I have introduced a bill that would employ federal jury registrars and use a population sampling system to insure that juries represent a cross section. Whatever formula Congress adopts, essays like yours encourage enlightened debate...
...Utah, Mrs. Peterson has crisscrossed the country organizing consumer conferences and censuring petty-minded manufacturers who, in her words, find it "profitable to confuse." The wife of a State Department officer and a mother of four, she does her own shopping, makes a practice of challenging dumfounded clerks to explain which products are the best buys. Denounced at first by the food industry-which has since heeded many of her suggestions-Mrs. Peterson received angry letters addressed to "Mrs. Snoopy." In defense of her mission, she points-out that in contrast to yesteryear's corner grocery, the modern supermarket...
...enter -and I am not criticizing it-the last war until it had been directly attacked, is engaged today in Europe, who does not see that it is primarily its own evident interest?" In fact, said Pompidou, the U.S. is in Europe out of necessity. "How else can you explain that it is allied not only with us but with Germany, which was its principal enemy 20 years ago, and against Russia, which was then its principal ally...
Miss Bieberman firmly believes that psychedelics can be put to "constructive" use, and that is the kind of use she is so intent upon bringing out into the open. "It's hard to explain to people who have not taken the drugs just what these good effects are," she says, "but they can give you a new perspective on the way you are living, and an increased sensitivity. You look at life in a completely different way when you're up and the important thing is to be able to apply this new perspective to your life when you come...