Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstrating students in your photo of the racial unrest at Cornell University in April 1969 [April 16], I was disappointed that you made no effort to explain the fundamental reasons why those troubled events occurred...
...face, the situation may help explain the mood of public disenchantment that has persisted long after the events-Viet Nam and Watergate-that were supposed to have caused it. Surely neither of those national traumas caused the drop of popular confidence in almost all key U.S. institutions that Pollster Louis Harris recently recorded. It also seems doubtful that either deprived the Administration's energy crusade of both popular support and belief. Could it be that many citizens simply feel foreclosed not only from knowledge but also from the power that knowledge would give them...
...believes that certain attempts to pierce the mystery of things are conducted backward: "Instead of using what we can guess at about the nature of thought to explain the nature of music, start over again. Begin with music and see what this can tell us about the sensation of thinking." He recommends an experiment, enlisting Johann Sebastian Bach to support his hypothesis: "Put on The St. Matthew Passion and turn the volume up all the way. That is the sound of the whole central nervous system of human beings, all at once...
Nonetheless, about 400 students demonstrated during the ceremony and drowned out much of President Bok's speech. After confusing last-minute negotiations, K-School officials allowed Mark Smith '72-4, a student representative, to explain the student position...
...days before the dedication of the Kennedy School of Government last fall, student groups demanded the right to speak at the opening ceremonies to explain why they thought the school's public affairs library should not be named after Charles W. Engelhard...