Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What specific insights? Handlin felt they were important enough to uphold entire works, but not relevant enough to explain to his readers...
...symbolic richness. Reading this book is almost like plowing through about 400 pages of poetry, too-as difficult and rewarding. Gordimer's structure demands ingenuity and patience. It's choppy--long descriptions interspersed with telegraphic bits of interior monologue and haphazard conversation. She switches perspectives to let Rosa explain how she sees herself and how she believes others see her. The reader has to fit it all together, compose a life out of these poetic fragments...
...university working committee for the handicapped and faculty coordinators at each school provide a shuttlebus, a tactile map of the campus, and tapes that explain the layout of the university...
...party as Dr. Treurnicht. Is this an anomaly? A: No, I don't think it's an anomaly. I've been in parliament now for 18 years. I've been interested in politics all my life and I've been in public life for more than 30 years. I explain it by saying that Dr. Treurnicht, whom I know well because we studied together at Stellenbosch University in 1946, '47, and '48, has the image of being a more conservative type of politician, and he is, I think, a strong man. He's got rapport with...
...understand. I suppose from your point of view there is a difficulty, but I've tried to explain that, in this setup, it's not extreme...