Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MARY GORDON'S first novel Final Payments attempts to show the effect of the denial of pleasure. However, she neglects to clearly explain her notion of either pleasure or self-discipline. Only her direct and meticulous prose makes her heroine's actions plausible...
Finley insists that because "the lecture is the lecturer's own self-discovery," a lecturer must not talk down to students, since, in oen sense, they are merely overhearing what the lecturer is trying to explain to himself...
...Lasorda, manager of the Dodgers, doesn't quite know how to explain what happened to this club in New York. "Wer're not too happy about it," he said...
...sleep until I've solved it." Nashville's Appleton has a fat file marked BIG K (for kooks) groaning with the barely legible, highly paranoid ramblings of the city's loneliest losers; he answers their missives with phone calls in hopes that they can better explain themselves viva voce. Says he: "I'm always afraid that somewhere in there a guy has a real problem, and maybe I'm his last resort...
Some may argue that very little of the clean stuff circulates among the foundations that offer such gifts, so to start singling out the gifts of some as unnacceptable is hypocritical. A Kennedy School official, attempting to explain his approach to gifts such as the Engelhard million, said he found some validity in the argument President Lowell used to make, that "to reject one gift on moral grounds would be to certify the moral validity and rectitude of past gifts." This argument seems as much an abdication of social responsibility as Engelhard's explanation of why he chose...