Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long before Freud, people were interested in explaining everything about each other. Clearly the technique Bernstein uses offers an opportunity for people to find out more about themselves. Whether or not, in the end, people will be any better off for being able to explain "everything" about themselves, there is no doubt that any study of human behavior is a dangerous thing. Even for experts, the hypnotic study of age regression requires real care. For an exploiter or even a sincere but half-informed layman there isn't much excuse...
Missing here is the extravagant language and device of much of the playwright's work. In a single room with plain words the Tyrones struggle to explain and justify their lives, and their drama is not a drama of action, but of souls trapped and in conflict: unwilling to stay, unable to destroy the bonds of love that hold them or halt the movement of time which gives them no reprieve...
Their emphasis on analysis has created the impression that to know poetry, one must explain it. This has given people the impression that a poem is something to be studied and not something to be enjoyed, he said...
...would make his announcement at his news conference the next day, he said, and explain his decision to the people on radio and television a few hours later. Then, together, the five went over an early draft of the statement the President proposed to make to the people...
...seemed to work untill the Great Rebellion of 1834. It was during May and June of this year that the Rebellion Tree had its greatest glory. President Josiah Quincy severely punished many students for this disturbance--he expelled all but three from the Sophomore Class. This fact alone may explain the subsequent lack of any serious outburst against the administration. More probably, however, students realized they could never hope to surpass the epic struggle of those two months, and so just gave up trying...