Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JANUARY. Parietal hours will be reduced by the Administrative Board. They will explain, "These are hectic times." Chiang Kai-shek will accept the position of Recreation Director with the Chinese People's Republic. Tom Dewey will refuse to comment upon his future plans while his wife paints campaign buttons and he brings his golf game down to the eighties...
APRIL. A Radcliffe girl is arrested for holding up the bank previously looted by an MIT student. She will explain, "I lust for experience" and then hang bullfight posters in her cell. Archibald MacLeish will volunteer his services to the football team claiming that "poetry should be brought to motion." Elsie buys out the Business School...
...defiance of convention and law appealed to the romantics, and in 1843 famed Critic Sainte-Beuve wrote that Byron and Sade "are perhaps the two greatest inspirations of our moderns." Poet Charles Baudelaire admitted: "One always comes back to Sade, that is to say to the natural man, to explain evil." Swinburne declared the day would come "when statues will be erected to him in every city." French Poet Guillaume Apollinaire called him "the freest spirit that ever lived." Surrealists were fascinated by him, and Photographer Man Ray did an "imaginative portrait" of him with the Bastille in flames behind...
...producers and performers in The Elements were not haunted by the limitations of commercial TV, and therefore were able to build their shows on the conception that their viewers would look because they wanted to be taught and challenged. As a result, The Elements provides leisurely efforts to explain the method as well as the feats of science, along with laymanlike discussions of the structure of the atom, the history of chemistry, chemical processes in industry, the construction of the universe...
...vast resources, PAX never budged the vast majority of Polish Catholics. Audiences listened skeptically when high-living Director Piasecki tried to explain why it was "necessary" for Poland's Red regime to jail Catholic bishops or liquidate Catholic charities. Many unsuspecting priests were arrested after their frank conversations were recorded by PAX men wearing concealed microphones; then Piasecki would offer to help free them in return for "cooperation." Only a handful accepted, and not a single renegade bishop could be found...