Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...July a California Court of Appeal unanimously overturned the conviction of a 32-year-old Los Angeles salesman in the rape of a 23-year-old waitress-hitchhiker. To help explain the decision, Justice Lynn Compton wrote that a woman who enters a stranger's car "advertises that she has less concern for the consequences than the average female." In response, Attorney Gloria Allred, a National Organization for Women coordinator, claimed the judge was ignoring "the fact that rape is an act of violence, not of sex." University of Southern California Law Professor Stephen Morse called Compton...
...might just as usefully explain the Hula-Hoop mania of the 1950s by pointing out that the hoop was a circle. Obviously the van is an escape - to the vanner. But this does not tell very much to numberless Americans who would cringe at living in a self-propelled room that has been aptly likened to "a San Quentin isolation cell." In the final analysis, the vanner's conspicuous escapist tendency sheds no light on prime motives...
...windowpanes of her stately home with her diamond ring before running off to the Spanish Civil War at the age of 19 with a nephew of Sir Winston Churchill's. In A Fine Old Conflict, a sequel to her earlier memoir, Daughters and Rebels, Decca promises to explain why she in particular and Mitford sisters in general have behaved so-well, Mitfordly...
...this, of course, makes a good story too. It is when Decca tries to explain the Mitford syndrome that everything falls apart. Why did she join the Communist Party and remain a Communist for the better part of two decades? "The Zeitgeist of the thirties" is the best she can do for an answer. She is no more convincing about why she left the party...
...even those Germans who have been immersed in an atmosphere of guilt for 30 years. Scenes of adulation by massive crowds, weeping women and adoring children often evoke nervous titters. But the film's emphasis on the manner of Hitler's rise to power is intended to explain just how he managed to lead Germans to such infamy...