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Word: explaining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much was left unsaid. I tried to explain that tests were geared to nice white people. I talked a long time trying to explain. About soul...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: You Can't Go Home Again | 2/22/1969 | See Source »

What is the final use of these figures? According to Bowles, they are "to explain basic statistical concepts and to provide an indication about the class structure of universities. . . ." One can accept the implied conclusions, yet they do not follow at all from the survey taken. I would suggest that this "survey" shows instead how any determined statistician--whether radical or reactionary--can find facts and an interpretation which will fit his predetermined ideas. This is a sad comment on the instructors of Soc Sci 125--and on the increasingly overt politicization of education at Harvard. Jess Hungate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOC SCI 125 SURVEY | 2/20/1969 | See Source »

Throughout the week blacks had a stranglehold control over the protesting students. The leaders, who remained anonymous until the end of the week, met secretly early in the mornings and emerged at 10 a.m. to explain the day's tactics to white students awaiting orders in the Student Union...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Wisconsin | 2/20/1969 | See Source »

...Kremlin incident, the young lieutenant deserted his unit, taking his pistol with him. Reaching Moscow the day before the celebration for the Soyuz4 and Soyuz5 cosmonauts, he spent the night at the home of his sister. The next morning he borrowed his brother-in-law's police uniform, explaining that, clad in that manner, he would be able to get a closer view of the parade. Some variants say that he also took his brother-in-law's pistol, which would explain reports that he fired away with a pistol in each hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: A Speculative Silence | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...throughout history, there is one phenomenon that science has never been able to explain: that is the mysterious energy flow of the body that has been documented in cultures in all parts of the world. Something exists in us, and we do not know what it is; it is enough to come in contact with...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Esalen and Harvard: Looking at Life From Both Sides Now | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

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