Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Intelligence), Powell has resumed writing a series of novels in which he looks back with wry hindsight on the middling years of his life and on the causes of the discontents gnawing away at his class. The low-decibel tone in which he has written his eleven books may explain why he has almost escaped attention in the U.S. The earlier installments of this series (A Question of Upbringing, A Buyer's Market) never sold as many as 5,000 copies in the U.S. The latest installment may force a reassessment. Perhaps U.S. readers have been passing...
...University will be interested at first in training its scientists to operate the complex mechanical mind, according to Orcutt. These men will then solve the University's problems in such fields as aerodynamics and atomic research, where high speed calculations can help explain the mysteries of sub-atomic particles...
...country has failed him . . . Perhaps [he] has failed his country, and perhaps he is more deeply missed than is at first apparent . . . [He] is failing his duty, the duty to which he is called. For there is no one, or at any rate almost no one, to understand and explain to the world the universal significance of the current American experiment...
...treason-he had given Communist lectures and broadcasts, had averred that the U.S. used germ warfare-a thoughtful judge advocate (Arthur Kennedy) is made suspicious by the very conclusiveness of the case. There is not only shattering testimony against Cargill; there is his admission of guilt, and refusal to explain his actions. Time Limit! being a thriller, it would be unfair to reveal more than that Cargill had turned traitor from decent motives; had been, indeed, on the horns of a lacerating dilemma...
...Millstones. The official paper spoke of the spies' undergraduate record of Communist sympathy. British Critic Cyril Connolly tried to explain the matter in Freudian terms (father trouble). Lord Beveridge, architect of the British Welfare State, suggested with supreme irrelevance that things might not have been so bad if the British civil-service pension system had been more liberal...