Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still young enough at 33 to play the juvenile, Cinemactor Marlon Brando, no longer a delinquent, tried to explain to New York Herald Tribune Columnist Joe Hyams why he has taken the marbles out of his mouth, untilted his pelvis and abandoned the T-shirt and sneakers as evening dress: "I've found you have to make a choice of whether you want to be a member of organized society or not. If so, you must make certain concessions. For example, in my business I am obliged to be cooperative, which includes talking to people...
Having fled from the U.S. to Mexico, then from Mexico to Czechoslovakia on Paraguayan passports, wealthy Alfred K. Stern, 59, and his wife Martha Dodd Stern, 48, let a Prague press conference know they were in no hurry to return to the U.S. and explain their activities as professional Communist spies, announced that they would soon visit East Germany, Bulgaria, Communist China. Safe (so far) behind the Iron Curtain, the daughter of onetime (1933-37) U.S. Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd, once famed for painting the town red at home and abroad, painted a picture of her own country...
...Reason for the high incidence, he said, lies in the country's culture, which creates an introvert type of personality. The Thai religion (Buddhism) forbids aggressiveness, teaches contentment and moderation "to an immoderate degree," thus encouraging lack of initiative and a turning away from reality. This also helps explain why nearly all Thai schizophrenics are quiet and "biddable...
...Interior last week when the waste of its haste came to light. Barton's check had bounced; his $40,000 on deposit in a Blytheville (Ark.) bank had been withdrawn. Barton blandly explained this oddity: his brother, who disapproved of the deal when he turned over the check, had done the withdrawing from their joint account. But he could not explain away the fact that Seaboard Surety Co., which Barton had claimed would put up the bond, had no plans to do so at all. Unlike Interior, Seaboard had requested proof of Barton's financial responsibility, which...
...immediately he set about making his villains into heroes. Gogol tried to explain away the real significance of his comedies. It was almost as if the authors of Oklahoma had inadvertently turned out Hamlet and had written to the New York Times to explain there was nothing rotten whatsoever in the state of Denmark...