Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth do you explain that?" we asked the students of the "white" University of Chapel Hill...
Raging River. Although Nehru's feelings about China were undoubtedly strong, they were couched in his own curious brand of spongy language ("An attempt to explain the situation by the use of rather worn-out words, phrases and slogans is seldom helpful"). If he hoped thereby that Peking would as softly reply, he misjudged his antagonist. Peking began a hue and cry about how "intolerable" Nehru's remarks were, and set in motion the whole dreary ritual of thousands of agitation meetings to condemn Nehru...
Finding two articles which rise above the sub-mediocre and "enigmatic" norm, Mr. A. can find no words to explain his sense of their quality or their meaning. He only mentions them briefly in a negative context. He also conveniently avoids a judgment on the sincerity or validity of the point of view expressed in Mr. Smith's letter.... Sara Dakin...
...Palace of Strangers is obviously Kopit's most ambitious published work to date. The segment printed in The Advocate is more suggestive than satisfying--yet one must make allowances for First Acts because, in establishing characters and their relations to each other, a playwright must talk and explain. Hopefully, Kopit's audience will find in the unfinished play a meaning and point of view that his earlier work has lacked...
...sorts of suggestions were made to explain the Explorer's peculiar behavior over the equatorial region. Perhaps a weird magnetic field was shunting all cosmic rays away from the equator. Maybe the alternation of sunlight and shade was affecting the Geiger counter. No explanation really worked...