Word: explains
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...likely that the change is an HAA move to appeal to the upper income brackets. Nor does the growing number of television sets explain the problem. A long and confusing series of statements and counterstatements, involving the University's well known "advice of legal council," the Corporation's reluctance to be told where and when to do anything, and the intricacies of national-television programming lie behind the change...
Although the University can maintain that there has been no policy change, and even explain why, it accepted a contract to televise in 1950, refused one in 1953, and accepted one in 1955, it has not yet made any public statement on the implications of such a move...
Will Achilles ever catch up with that slow but steady tortoise? Some of the early Greeks said no, and Professor Havelock, lecturing in "Greek 170a" on "The Growth of the Greek Intellect from Thales to Plato," will explain how they reached this and other conclusions. Fraternity types should feel right at home in Sever 26, what with all the Greek Gods running around...
Definition of Spying. Rickett tried to explain how it was after four years of imprisonment that he considered his jailer right and his own country wrong. When he first went to Peking in 1948, he thought the Communists were wrong; he thought that the Russians were coming down into China, that the U.S. should stop them. "After my arrest, I came to realize that the Chinese had a right to run their own country any way they wanted to run it. The new China exists. It is there, and it is a fact. No matter how we feel about...
...Britain's Political Quarterly, Dr. Jacob Bronowski, of the British National Coal Board, tries to explain why scientists are viewed with suspicion by most nonscientists. "The scientist," says Bronowski, "is not only disliked, but also distrusted." Governments treat the scientist as "indispensable, but unreliable, a hangdog hangman who has the bad manners to be good at war work and the impertinence to find it distasteful. The public thinks that he has no conscience, and his security officer fears that he has two consciences . . . He is unhappy between his scientific creed and his social loyalty: between, that is, the long...