Word: explains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anger is not difficult to explain. The dream of equality has been deferred too long, and Americans, both white and black, are paying in the late '60s for the omissions of the past. For there is another side to the glowing figures of black advancement. Negroes are still three times as likely as whites to die in childbirth and infancy; they are three times as likely to be in poverty; they are twice as Likely to be unemployed. While they are gaining more in terms of income than whites, they are not likely to catch up at the present...
...investigation of man's animal nature is rather humbling in its impact, but it also goes a long way, in the ethologists' view, to explain why he acts as he does. Canada's Lionel Tiger-who appropriately met Fox at the London Zoo and now works with him at Rutgers-has a theory to explain why men dominate politics. He argues that men are biologically more political than women, in the sense that they have a greater ability for what psychologists call "bonding" or the ability to forge lasting relationships. He suggests that there is an attraction...
...looking fat and enormously confident, pointed out sourly that the speech was a strongly partisan one, an effort to rally the Democratic troops behind the Johnson programs and even behind Johnson himself. Apparently annoyed by LBJ's attempt to steal Nixon's already-feeble thunder, Javits went on to explain that the Johnson programs were really outdated anyhow, just warmed-over New Deal policies, and so on. There aren't very many poor people in the country any more, fewer than ever before, said Javits, and so he expected to see the incoming Administration striking out in "new directions...
...plumbing and soundproofing were erratic. Though some of the finished public rooms were beautifully furnished in suede and velvet, many rooms showed misguided efforts to cater to an unhappy estimate of American tastes. Decor ran from motel modern to floating Howard Johnson's. One Cunard official tried to explain the limp bill of fare: "What we are trying for is decent middle-class food. We are not pretending to be the equal of big, first-class London or New York restaurants." By contrast, ships of the French Line, the Italian Line and others have some of the world...
...things space people are asked to explain is how we can let ourselves pay billions of dollars to keep a couple of individuals up for a few hours when that money could be putting food in the mouths now of now starving people all over the world and even here in the U.S.A...