Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marx concocted a "total" theory, a consistent set of symbols, to explain the course of history, and he intended his theory to be swallowed whole. The vision derives much of its poetic force from its unity, although few modern men gulp down the whole brew. Outside the Communist countries, formal conversion to Marxism is now rarer than it was a generation ago. Much Marxist influence is indirect and fragmentary. In some minds, fragments of the Marxist vision coexist-illogically-with Christianity or Freudianism. For most, it provides a rationale for criticizing society as it is, rather than a plan...
...Chance in Birmingham, England. In a recent issue of the British journal New Scientist, two of them, Christopher Brannigan and Dr. David Humphries, report that the team has isolated and catalogued no fewer than 135 distinct gestures and expressions of face, head and body. This human semaphore system, they explain, is not only capable of expressing an extraordinary range of emotions but also operates at a lower-and sometimes different-level of consciousness than ordinary speech...
Members of the Corporation spoke to student gatherings in the various Houses to explain to Corporation's stand on ROTC, Harvard expansion policies, and the other strike issues...
While stressing its right to review the whole concept of radical education at the end of the academic year, the CEP approved plans for Soc Rel 149--a spring term follow-up to Soc Rel 148. But the CEP said that Soc Rel 149 organizers would have to explain to the Soc Rel department the suggested "direct social action" sections of the course...
...committee investigating Faculty misconduct devised a system for processing complaints against Corporation appointees. The Committee said it would send letters to Faculty members accused of misconduct and then let the accused people explain their action to the committee...