Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magnetic field of the earth seems to be too weak to account for this effect," said Hynek. "Gravity explains about 99 per cent of the motion. The extra bit needed to explain the extra perturbation is not gravity, unless the earth has a distribution in mass much different than we have assumed...
Hynek said that this unexpected motion might explain the difficulties which scientists have encountered in attempting to establish a definite orbit for the satellite...
...highborn Egyptian who chose the Jews (hence "the chosen people") as the instrument for perpetuating Akhnaton's monotheism, which had just been swept out of Egypt in a religious counterrevolution. Freud, who regarded religion as a "universal obsessional neurosis," was at pains to explain the acceptance of Moses and of his one God in terms of the "father figure." Comments Author Jones: "Freud had always asserted the psychological truth in religion, i.e., that it was concerned with real unconscious conflicts present in everyone. In this book he laid special stress on the historical truth in religion, i.e., that...
...exposed to conflicting values. Pound, Fisher, and DeVoto rejected Mormon values. In Fisher and DeVoto can clearly be seen a marked concern for saying something (and justifying), rather than that with form and style. Whipple and Stegner, in large part, accepted Mormon culture but felt that they need to explain why they did so. There are a host of excellent minor poets and novelists born in Mormon Country, but writers of prose predominate: in this gendre there is more opportunity for idea-expression than in poetry's emphasis upon form...
...musical comedy Rumple is not really so absurd as its title would suggest. That title, it might be well to explain at the outset, is also the name of a newspaper comic strip character who, for some unclear reason, comes to life to haunt his creator. The fact that Rumple is invisible to everybody else in the cast provides Irving Phillips' book with its main source of humor. Though scarcely original, the joke is still intermittently funny...