Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case, the pre-med stereotype really does fit. So do the labels social wizard and musical prodigy. But no psychologist, neurologist, or any other "ist" can explain how to combine all these stereotypes into one generalization that describes the life of Madison Sample...
Hall described putting through a call from Reagan to North at a hotel shortly after North had been fired. She talked to North later and recalled, "He said the president called him an American hero, and he just didn't know." She said North didn't explain the last part of that comment...
Manwaring was schooled in the dogmas of visual rationalism just at the moment when the crude baroque of psychedelia was popping up on posters all over San Francisco. That formative combination may explain why Manwaring still seeks to produce images on the border between the orderly and the wild, at once restrained and mannerist. A wine label for Sonoma County's small Hanna Winery, for example, is no neat, well-behaved rectangle but an asymmetrical ziggurat with type stacked in surprising ways. For a poster meant to express the idea of summer, a fragment of architectural statuary is enclosed within...
Professors explain the small size of the department by citing the subject's relative lack of popularity. Harrison says, "The main emphasis on any department's size rests on the importance or expanding nature of it." Thus, during the 1960's and the Civil Rights Movement, Afro-American Studies was by necessity a more popular field of study and a larger department...
...unrepentant former Nazi was later asked to explain his philosophy but declined, saying, "I cannot explain in two words what National Socialism was." He denied harboring any hatred for groups the Nazis identified as "inferior races." Declared Barbie: "I have no hatred for these minorities . . . I did my work under the direction of my superiors...