Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ability to explain, project, sell: by TV, in print, in person; to factory workers, suburbanites, blacks, students, farmers, Southerners, Yankees. Also known as the quality of leadership...
...pathetic. Bill looked and acted like he had been on dexedrine nonstop for two weeks. He showed me an article about a medical researcher in California. He was so excited by her findings and her particular point of view that he wanted to call her. I tried to explain to him that it was 3:30 a.m. in California, but Bill persisted...
...announced purpose to explain what Harvard is like these days--aided by Alberta Arthurs, dean of undergraduate affairs, and Dean Rosovsky. Of course, an equally important purpose of the symposium was to keep the old grads happy. This is traditionally done by assuring alumni that Harvard is still the same place they remember; that whatever changes have occurred have been mostly for the better; and that where changes have not been for the better, official Harvard is pushing diligently for a return...
...because many people from Harvard helped plan the war. "For us to be getting all of the benefits of Harvard made us feel incredibly guilty. The war was continually present in our lives. Many of us felt personally responsible for the war. The passion we felt is impossible to explain and feel again. I don't think many of my classmates are going to forget that period...
POLITICAL PROFILE is probably not the best term to describe Heymann's book. It doesn't really spend much time attempting to explain how or why Pound did what he did. It is more a summary of all of Pound's political acts, spiced with a plethora of anecdotes and meaningless details that have accumulated around the poet's life. This in itself, however, is important, because none of Pound's previous biographers attempted to present the political side of Pound's life. In fact they've remained rather defensive about it, as if the artificial separation of Pound...