Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explain its functions, the staff of the Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning shows videotapes of Harvard instructors that are all-too-familiar to students who have sat through incomprehensible and poorly delivered lectures or have tried to learn from nervous and unprepared section leaders. Some of the teachers who consented to be taped for an evaluation of their teaching ability are so bad they are almost humorous. An economics section leader tangles himself up hopelessly in supply-and-demand curves, stares pitifully at the blackboard and stumbles on through a now useless explanation. A French section leader twirls...
...Well, we're a very special Church. I could talk all day about it. But we have a show that will explain it much better than I can. But I will tell you now that we believe in the Bible, believe every word of it, and we try to live our lives according to that faith. We also believe in the Book of Mormon, believe in it very deeply, and we try to live our lives according to that...
...going to see a show that will explain a little bit more about the Mormon religion...
...sacrifices. I don't think that either of those days is here, though, and I don't think one can ever arrive without the other. So I guess I'll have to protest, although I feel uncomfortable doing so. And while I'm at it, I might as well explain...
...Kahn has brought a new sense of style and unpredictability to the once stodgy agency. He has a passion for Gilbert and Sullivan, which he often indulged at Cornell by singing and prancing in student productions. His other obsession is clear English. Says he: "If you can't explain what you're doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong." He admits that his fight against bureaucratic bafflegab is not always successful. But he adds: "Rome wasn't destroyed...