Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explain to anyone, or show him either, how he will react emotionally to Communist prisoner-handling methods . . . so how can you expect a man to harden himself to unusual conditions by watching instructors whip off a routine demonstration in which the student can take no part...
Later in the day Dr. White granted still another interview-this time to explain his television remarks. "I indicated that I, personally, as Paul D. White, would have no great desire to undertake such a strain as that imposed upon a President of the U.S.A. This remark could be interpreted as meaning that I would give such advice to the President. Far from it. If the President has a good recovery, as he seems to be on the way to establishing, and if he desires to continue in his present career-which could be, of course, to the great benefit...
When the spirit moved him, he was still the racy raconteur and acrobatic vaudevillian who could have panicked the Palace. He was also the best manager in the majors. But even Casey was hard put to explain how he did it this year...
YOUNG TÖRLESS, by Robert Musil (217 pp.; Pantheon; $2.95), helps explain one of history's more interesting paradoxes: how a civilization outwardly, as gay and waltzy as 19th century Austria could produce the stark theories and dark case histories of Vienna's Dr. Sigmund Freud. Austria's late Novelist Robert Musil, known in the U.S. for his ponderously brilliant masterpiece, The Man Without Qualities (TIME, June 8, 1953; Nov. 15, 1954), had a sharp eye for the moral decay behind Vienna's comfy façades. His first novel, brought...
Young Törless found the frustrations of growing up something he could explain to neither his doting parents nor the stuffy members of the school staff. That old devil sex was getting troublesome, too, and a visit to a local prostitute only added to his confused ideas. When a couple of sadistic pals decide to make a butt of an effeminate fellow student, Törless is both disgusted and attracted. Up in a dark attic, the victim is systematically beaten to a physical and emotional pulp...