Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explain that you are a beginner, they will in turn be honest in describing the level of competence desired for a particular trip...
...addiction. There, Sherlock Holmes and his historical contemporary Sigmund Freud, the world's two greatest investigative minds, join forces to unravel a mystery. While undergoing treatment for his addiction, Holmes pursues the case of Freud's beautiful ex-patient Lola Devereaux (who has been abducted). Freud, meanwhile, seeks to explain the enigma of Sherlock Holmes himself...
...role, they should be permitted to screen potential officers. Unfortunately, it is not yet certain that Bok will allow students the input into the officer's daily activities that they demand. To date the task force has not received official University recognition, and has been stifled in attempting to explain its perceptions of Harvard's affirmative action failings. As long as the University has nothing to hide in relation to its affirmative action compliance, it is hard to understand why Bok refuses to permit more than informal, and therefore virtually no, input from students...
What is disheartening about this particular piece is that Glazer does a much better job explaining the same thesis in his longer work Affirmative Discrimination. Daedalus is simply a distillery for Glazer. We get his essence without getting any of the facts to attempt to back his contention. This shortcoming is a function of length; he cannot monopolize the 250 pages or so that he needs to explain and defend his thesis. Barring that, we must settle for an abbreviated historiography of discrimination and the naked conclusions he draws...
Some of the comments Rich makes about sexual relationships and relationships between women lead one to believe she turned to lesbianism after her husband's death, which might explain some of the inconsistencies in her argument. Parenting--a concept she hardly considers in her eagerness to show the problems with mothering--is a two-gender operation, and her one-sided focus on mothering ignores the satisfaction that both parents could get out of dealing with children. What she really objects to, it seems, is her feeling that her three sons expected her to repress all anger in their interest...