Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...added: "It is inevitable that he will resign." Carter's reply, delivered while campaigning in New Jersey for Governor Brendan Byrne, was ambiguous. "I respect the opinion of people like Senator Byrd," said the President, "but I agree with him that Bert ought to have a chance to explain...
...Washington, there were flurries of telephone calls among Central Intelligence Agency alumni as they watched CIA Director William Martin (Cliff Robertson) explain to his mistress that he had lied before a Senate committee about political assassinations abroad. Martin is a fictional mutation of former CIA Chief Richard Helms, and a plot line of Behind Closed Doors is that the top spook blackmailed President Richard Monckton (Jason Robards) to cover up the killings. Nothing of the kind ever occurred, but some CIA veterans were concerned about the possibilities of further damage to the agency's already battered image...
...When the prince approaches his lieutenant, the proper response of the lieutenant is 'Fiat voluntas tua' "(Thy will be done). So did G. Gordon Liddy, a former counsel to Richard Nixon's re-election committee, explain his role in Watergate. Liddy was released from federal prison in Danbury, Conn., after 52½ months behind bars. Accompanied by his wife Frances, the grim-faced Liddy strode through the crowd to a waiting Pinto. Once the trunk was loaded with his few possessions, he slammed it shut with a karate chop. Asked how he felt, he responded, this time...
...look at Keenan's career helps explain his devotion to Harvard. Except for a two-year period of study at the University of Leningrad during the early '60s, Harvard has been Keenan's home for the past 24 years. He arrived in Cambridge as a college freshman in 1953, a self-described "kid from the boon-docks" of western New York. "This place has been very important in my life. Harvard has been very good to me," Keenan says and adds after a moment's reflection, "It still is." He served as master of North House for five years during...
...marked by five stages. First comes the heat of protest, and then the more reflective search for personal identity. This is followed by an exploration of culture, a refinement of craft and finally a wider vision of the world. But the important thing, says Morrison, is not to explain but "to bear witness, to record." The author, who is also an editor at Random House, did this in The Bluest Eye (1970) and Sula (1973), novels that dealt with blacks in the Middle West, where the author was born...