Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only way to explain the phenomenon is the influx of ever-better athletes into all professional sports. Babe Ruth was simply such a legend that he could be excused for showing a little bravado. More important, his very presence at the plate commanded respect...
...real figure is well over 80 percent, but you wouldn't know it to look at a crowd. Steering that middle course between atheism and fundamentalism often puts one on slippery ground. Often it is easier not even to try to explain how one can believe in God but not school prayer, or in the Supreme Being but not every word in the Gospels...
...hippie (Nields), then big-shot N.Y. lawyer (Liman), etc. But before the great American celebrity machine, which marries Tiny Tim on the Carson show and deploys Itzhak Perlman on The Hollywood Squares, a little humility is in order. Bands of sociologists are already in deep retreat trying to explain the ineffable Vanna White. Pity them and the mavens at work on Oliver North. When bait-and-tackle shops on the Maryland shore hang GO OLLIE signs, it is safer to concede that some things, like the Hula-Hoop and the Gabor sisters, are not explicable...
When Sandy Bakalar arranged a date for Dukakis with her friend Katharine Dickson, she felt compelled to explain, "She's Jewish, divorced and has a son by her first marriage." The two clicked immediately. "I found him very sexually attractive," Kitty Dukakis laughs. "People don't think of Michael that way. That's why it's fun to talk about it." Friends say Dukakis' parents were initially resistant to the match, and suggest that his marriage to Kitty in 1963 may have marked his true break with his Greek immigrant roots...
...charter, Stokes said. The Constitution matters more than the passing will of the majority, and Blacks fear people such as North who abrogate the highest law in the name of the people, Stokes said. By suggesting that North's philosophy was one which frightened Blacks, Stokes indirectly helped to explain the presence of racial slurs in Ollie's mail. The Ohio Congressman was trying to make North aware of the dangers of his own words, words which contained the danger that someday a bigoted majority would be able to strip minorities of their civil rights...