Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope parents who can't prevent their children from seeing the latest "big bopper" will try to explain that there are more worthy demands to be made of any art form than "Show it!" and that some aspects of human life have more value than their incidental contribution to even the most fantastic box office receipts...
...makes bombs; and Brodie, his girlfriend who plants them. Together, they form a family of sorts, arguing about what to watch on television while a room full of weapons sits upstairs. They are a family with interconnecting lives, yet they know little about each other. Mayo does not explain to Hood why he is kept waiting for a call to action...
...explain exactly what goes on at the Writing Center, Weinstein gave the example of the undergraduate who came in hoping to clarify her thoughts for a paper about de Tocqueville. As with most of the students who come to the center, she didn't appear with a draft in hand. She was having trouble getting started. Weinstein suggested that she take a desk outside the office and "think the question through on paper." To explain what he meant, he posed another question for himself and demonstrated. The staff, Weinstein said, will never actually do any of the work on students...
...should expect an educated individual to have good manners and high aesthetic and moral standards. By this I mean the capacity to reject shoddiness in all its many forms, and to explain and defend one's views effectively and rationally...
Those figures help explain why the voter turnout may prove critical. The percentage of eligible voters casting ballots had declined from 63.1% in 1960 to 55.4% in 1972. With no Viet Nam War or counterculture turmoil to sharpen the difference between the candidates, some experts predict that only half the nation's 150 million eligible voters will care enough to go to the polls...