Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least odd aspect of the affair is that Foucault's Pendulum is not so much a thriller as a complicated parable that contains pages and pages of erudite details about such medieval phenomena as the Knights Templar, the Cathars and the Order of Assassins. And Eco steadfastly refuses to explain what his mysterious novel is all about. "This was a book conceived to irritate the reader," he says in his drafty university office, lighting up another of the 60 cigarettes he puffs every day. "I knew it would provoke ambiguous, nonhomogeneous responses because it was a book conceived to point...
...time did my attackers attempt to explain the reasons behind their actions. After the man in question declined my second offer to dance, I had considered the matter settled and never approached him again. It never occurred to me to connect my earlier requests to dance with the harassment I received after the dance was over. My attackers' insults and taunts were without exception directed at the issue of my orientation. As far as I know, they were merely "fag-bashing" a randomly selected homosexual...
...funding controversy cannot really explain the tepid student support for AWARE. Calendars about the program were posted all over campus, and it is reasonable to assume that the vast majority of students knew about the events. Why did so few attend...
HRAAA Director Robert Wolff'54 last week indicated the force Tutu can bring to Harvard's divestment movement. "I look forward with great anticipation to the moment when Derek Bok attempts to explain in front of Archbishop Tutu why it is in Blacks' best interest not to divest," he said. "I think the University's position will crumble at that moment...
...undergoing revision), he signed up Imhausen-Chemie as chief subcontractor for the project. Intelligence officials say Barbouti's newly opened offices in Hong Kong helped arrange a complex scheme by which material was sent to Imhausen's representative in Hong Kong and transshipped to Rabta. In this way, they explain, Barbouti managed to avoid arousing suspicions about Gaddafi's real intent...