Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which every object is a product of his own imagination. The pavilion walls are of translucent vitreous cement in various colors. Inside are glass bookcases in which the books seem to float on air, tables whose color varies with the angle of view, an austere double bed. Asked to explain some of the items, blocky, bristly Ponti bubblingly obliged...
...deposits. "It suddenly struck me," he reported, "that there were no deposits of currency," even though the clinic daily took in as much as $300 in cash. When the shortage added up to $100,000, one of the doctors called Margaret and asked her to kindly come in and explain. Why, of course she would, she said...
...Winnable Powell, with a pipe, a monocle and a succession of simpering show girls, the tabloid Sketch (circ. 1,283,000) finally broke the secret. This "elegant, enterprising, experienced man in a million," said the Sketch, would be rotated-for assignment-among the letter writers who could most convincingly explain what they wanted...
...Zurich last week as a tiny microphone was fastened around his neck and a TV camera was wheeled into place, "this is the first time anyone ever had me on a leash." Then, his white head wreathed in tobacco smoke, the famed analyst leaned back to answer questions and explain the theories that placed him with Freud and Adler in the big three of modern psychology. It was his first experience with TV, and it was for an audience that must have seemed remote indeed. The audience to be convened this fall: citizens of Houston, Texas, who will...
...hope to film such great masters as T. S. Eliot, Arnold Toynbee and Bernard Berenson. Says Evans dreamily: "Suppose we had had this thing in the 16th century. Why, we could have had Shakespeare. Even more recently, what a boon it would have been to have had Einstein explain relativity...