Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blockbuster on their hands. There is talk of a three-part presentation by the President next week: a fireside chat to discuss the need for a strong energy policy, a speech before a joint session of Congress to present the policy, and a full-dress press conference to explain it -all on national...
...concludes Manhattan Psychoanalyst David Abrahamsen in Nixon vs. Nixon: An Emotional Tragedy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $10.95), the latest entry in the burgeoning field known as "psychobiography.'' Psychobiographers seek to explain the lives of famous people by theorizing about their inner psyches. The best-known and most respected practitioner, Erik Erikson, subjected Luther and Gandhi to the treatment. Sigmund Freud once collaborated (with William Bullitt) on a job on Woodrow Wilson. By now psychobiography has become such a fad that last year an American Psychiatric Association task force recommended that psychiatrists avoid such projects unless the subjects...
Less easy to explain away was a steep rise in industrial commodity prices. Many basic products, including aluminum, rubber and various plastics, are getting more expensive all the time -and manufacturers have been moved, or at least tempted, to reflect the real or anticipated higher cost of supplies in their own prices. Take James Brownell, vice president of Florida-based Weatherking, Inc., maker of air conditioners: "I have seen in the past several months price increases from my vendors slip upward from five to seven percent. It scares the daylights...
...about an automobile mechanic named Donald Shimoda who barnstorms around the Midwest and preaches homilies. An old barnstormer himself, Bach used to dream of meeting just such a man to answer his questions like: "Why are we living?" Responding to his own questions, he has his character Shimoda explain that we are all "game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe." Meanwhile, the fun-having author has bought himself an old U.S. Air Force T-33 jet trainer to whisk back and forth between his Winter Haven, Fla., home and Hollywood, to film his Illusions...
...reader's "frame of reference"? What is the "organizing idea" (theme) of the paragraph? What "set of information" (facts) will be worked into the paragraph? Only after dutifully outlining the requirements can the student begin to write. When he is finished, he must analyze the paragraph and explain -again on paper-whether his "organizing idea" survived the actual writing process. Finally, he reviews the whole exercise with the instructor, who may order him to do it all over-remembering, of course, the Van Nostrand dictum that a student must write as if he had "a contract with the reader...