Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This deliberate use of the guitar as the major element of the music helps to explain the tremendous excitement that the Jeff Beck Group generates at every public performance--from the Fill-more East to the Boston Tea Party and now probably in Detroit, audiences are left at the end of the show shredded and near-hysterical. Another reason for this audience appeal is the Group's steaming physical presence on stage, its sense of togetherness as a unit, and its musical cohesion creating an unadulterated rolling, weaving ball of sound...
...expert view of a state chemist. His pretrial analysis, says the committee, indicated that there was blood of the victim's type on the shorts. The fact that the shorts were also paint-stained, the committee insists, was quite immaterial. The defense would still have had to explain away the blood...
...reasons that are commonly advanced to explain present-day revolutionary action are not persuasive to James Q. Wilson, professor of government at Harvard. Revolutions are commonly thought to be triggered by "material deprivation or unresponsive governments," he writes in the New York Times Magazine. Actually, the more people get, says Wilson, the more they demand. "Competition for leadership among dissident groups will inevitably generate ever more extreme demands faster than less extreme requests are filled." If anything is to blame for revolution, thinks Wilson, it may be prosperity, which has freed an ever increasing number of people, educated...
...Oxford. In Rome, where they began their protest by setting fire to an effigy of Charles de Gaulle, some 2,000 students held the campus until moderate students, anxious to finish exams, and armed police stormed it. The Italian Communist Party, through Theoretician Giorgio Amendola, did its best to explain the workers' failure to support student power. Reproving the students' "anarchism" and "old barricade spirit," Amendola urged young rebels to channel their energy toward the workers and noted that Lenin himself had warned "not to play with insurrection...
...smile. Today, more and more artists are devoting themselves to art that exists primarily in the mind's eye. Called "conceptual art," it usually exists in the form of a scale model, a preliminary sketch or a written description, suitable for framing. Any of these items, the artists explain, are but a hint, a shadow, a shade, a clue to the real thing, which is usually some concept so complex, so subtle, so abstract or simply so large that it cannot be reduced to a mere two or three dimensions...