Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facing increased manpower needs," he then went on to explain. "And we also don't want the graduate schools to become excuses for avoiding military service. We want to be sure people are not using the schools as a means to escape doing their duty...
This theorem, which mathematicians find charming, is said to be the first really serious attempt to explain the word "strategy," and it may well be. The Navy and the Air Force have both worked for years to apply the theory of games to practical military problems...
Couturier went on to explain that today's sacred art is "constantly repeating the old styles of past centuries, slavishly rebuilding romanesque, gothic or renaissance churches, never utilizing modern forms until they are already outmoded-or else employing them artificially, in ... borrowings that lack any spontaneous spark of life. For more than a century, imagination-the true innovator of all new forms-has remained completely outside of, and alien to, the Church . . . The only great Christian artist alive, Rouault, had to wait until he reached the age of eighty before seeing one of his works admitted to a church...
...malign spells recover their resistance to infection when their diet or metabolism is corrected. It may be that even among well-fed and generally healthy individuals, Dr. Dubos suggests, the ability to ward off attack by infectious agents will vary greatly from day to day. If so, it may explain why a nurse or attendant in a leprosarium may be exposed to infection for years and then, mysteriously, fall victim to the disease. As Dubos puts it: "Contact and receptivity may be rarely coincidental...
Returning to the present and to Faculkner's adventures in Hollywood, however, Coughlin weakens the book with an overdose of anecdotes. He seems to become so involved with the writer's eccentricities that, instead of trying to explain them or put them in proper perspective, he piles amusing incidents on the reader so heavily that the chapter largely destroys the clear outline of Faulkner the man that he has sketched in the earlied part of the book...