Word: explains
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...Cunning Man constructs marriages of science and religion, as well as literature and medicine, in keeping with the Canadian writer's synthetical, Platonic worldview, and Davies' long success at barking up the same trees is particularly easy to explain from the book: the man is a storyteller, and a fine one. Whether Robertson Davies is a great writer is a good question, but a better one is: does he tell a good story? The answer is quite clearly yes. He tells a good story and he tells it well, and we are the better...
Mack says most of the arguments againstabduction fail to explain all five fundamentalaspects of the phenomenon: the consistency ofstories among widely separated people, the absenceof personal psychopathology that could account forthese experiences, associated physical findingssuch as scars and reports of missing people, theassociation between UFO sightings and abductionreports and the reports of the phenomena inchildren under three...
...press release reads: "Josh Liston, the President of the Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Council, the student government of Harvard College, has called upon the College to re-admit Gina Grant and to specifically explain to the campus why her previous offer was rescinded...
...almost every chapter, an excerpt from a famous or important primary source is quoted. Sections of Havelock Ellis'Sexual Inversion, for example, explain the methods of the famed "sexologist." The unsettling passage from E.M. Forster's Maurice in which a troubled young man confesses his homosexuality to a dismissive, unsympathtic doctor sticks in the mind of the reader. While the use of primary sources in historical works is certainly not an original method, reading what intellectuals had to say about the gay experience of their era is invaluable to the reader's understanding...
...know, I know, everyone go scramble and get your "America's Cup" betting pool and change your results--but first let me explain why you should watch...