Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on the way in which you explain intricate subjects to the average reader...
...selective breeding: "It rests definitely on the principle of voluntariness. Genetic-hygiene measures are taken exclusively at the desire of the persons concerned. Experience shows that patients, after having been informed on the significance of the hereditary taint, nearly always follow their doctor's advice." He does not explain how a mentally defective patient can understand the medical and social considerations involved, or how "voluntariness" can be achieved...
...would seem fair to assume that no story or poem in which the reader does not know in some sense "what is happening" will appeal to that reader. Using this critical pretext, I can perhaps explain my intestinal reactions to the March edition of The Advocate, reactions which are on the whole negative...
Pursuing its quarterly inquiry into "The Art of Fiction," the Paris Review tracked down Author Thornton Wilder, deftly skimmed the top cream of his thoughts. Since William Faulkner is convinced that good whisky is an aid to enticing the muse, could Wilder explain how liquor helps? Replied he: "Many writers have told me that they have built up mnemonic devices to start them off ... Hemingway once told me he sharpened 20 pencils, Willa Gather that she read a passage from the Bible, not from piety . . . but to get in touch with fine prose. My own springboard has always been long...
...worst is an occasional resemblance to that dreary form of literature, the theatrical reminiscence. His pride rings out most clearly when he recounts how heads of state sent emissaries to his studio to ask for originals of his caricatures to decorate the walls of their vanity. This may help explain how the boy radical became a sort of licensed jester at the court of his political enemies. Even "Colonel Blimp," Low's greatest gift to the popular mythology of politics, somehow went wrong. They made a film about Blimp, and it turned into a defense of all the stuffy...