Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main thing is you've got to tell Dad to stop telling those World War II stories of his, that Willie and Joe stuff from the old cartoons. I mean, it's so out of date you wouldn't believe, I mean, ancient. Like, let me explain...
...warfare in recent years. Against the traditional view that history should be based on documentary evidence-and artistically inspired by the Muse Clio-the innovators known as Cliometricians argue that truth can best be found in computer analyses of population movements, interest rates and other social data. Still others explain old riddles by invoking the theories of sociology and psychoanalysis. New voices insist that it should serve the purposes of racial justice or economic reform. In contrast to all these divisions, Braudel offers historians a new kind of synthesis. Oxford Historian H.R. Trevor-Roper has written of the Braudelian method...
...Gradgrind (Ursula Howells), "-ologies of every kind, -ologies, -ologies, from morning till night, -ologies of every description. But there is something your father missed out, or forgot." It takes Mr. Sleary (Harry Markham), the disreputable owner of a circus, and Sissy (Michelle Dibnah), the daughter of a clown, to explain the lessons of dreams and imagination. Hard Times is the story of Louisa's slow tutelage - against the backdrop of Victorian greed and despair...
...Burger was lobbying members of the majority to hear their arguments (TIME, May 2). Attorneys for the defense suggested that the news leak, which Totenberg claims originated with "seven separate sources," may have prejudiced their clients' chances by freezing the Justices in place. They asked for permission to explain their position in a supplementary brief. Last week the high court formally rejected that suggestion without dissent or comment. A final decision on the petitions has been delayed until at least next week...
...cause of municipal deficits (95.5% of exempt property in New York City is non-religious). Responsible church groups, Kelley notes, have long advocated taxation of profit-making businesses owned by religions. But churches themselves do not generate wealth, he says, and thus "do not need to explain why they are not taxed any more than do the birds...