Word: explains
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Your Sept. 10 footnote reference to my book on Professor Toynbee's A Study oj History makes it appear that I am angry with Toynbee because his ''vast general categories of civilization and his characterization of Jewish culture as 'fossilized relics' fail to explain the extraordinary phenomenon of Jewish survival." This misrepresents me. I am angry with Toynbee because I believe (and think I have proved in my book) that his views on Judaism and the Jewish people are heavily tinctured with antiSemitism. His scholarship in the Jewish and some other fields does hot move...
Hypoglycemia may be chronic and may thus explain why some authors and philosophers have had consistently pessimistic outlooks...
...mustered 18 maritime nations behind a mild U.S. plan to put the key waterway under a form of international supervision while acknowledging Egypt's ownership. Dulles sent the State Department's ace Middle East troubleshooter, Loy Henderson, to Cairo on a five-nation committee "to present and explain" the U.S. plan to Egypt's President Nasser...
Menzies, unwilling to go beyond his mandate "to present and explain," argued only that Nasser would lose no sovereignty by delegating canal control to an international body. The Egyptian dictator was adamant. This turned out to be the decisive meeting. It lasted 100 minutes...
...Peer reason that severe emotional disturbance, of whatever kind, stimulates the adrenal glands to pump out extra hydrocortisone; this checks the formation of connective tissue between the two sides of the palate or may actually dissolve tissue already formed. The high incidence of cleft palates among first-born they explain on the ground that first pregnancies usually involve more stress...