Word: explains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks ago, Republican Club President Karen E. Boyle came out on the pages of Lighthouse magazine to announce that she was indeed a feminist. Or, as she goes on to explain, a "conservative feminist...
...didn't mean what she wrote. I suggest this, because as a conservative woman and someone who knows something about the various strains of feminism, I don't think there's any way to reclaim the term "feminist." Feminists (who without a doubt form a very disparate group) explain their cause as the fight for "equal rights." But the word "feminist" carries a lot more baggage than that...
...major activities--not only in Arts and Sciences but also in our professional schools--are strongly devoted to the search for fundamental knowledge: for basic patterns that can help us understand nature or human behavior more fully; for principles of broad application that can help to explain phenomena at much deeper levels than would be required if our only goal were the solution of very specific or purely practical problems...
...Cardinal likes to explain his faith through the story of one of his theology professors, a man who questioned the thinking behind the church's 1950 declaration that the Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven was an infallible tenet. "He said, 'No, this is not possible -- we don't have a foundation in Scripture. It is impossible to give this as a dogma.' " This led the professor's Protestant friends to hope they had a potential convert. But the professor immediately reaffirmed his abiding Catholicism. "No, at this moment I will be convinced that the church is wiser than...
...furniture of novel writing clutters chapters that might otherwise explain what happened. It is simply irritating, for a reader trying to understand the murk of the Suez crisis, to be patronized by docudrama as characters dash on- and offstage costumed as a paratrooper, a general, an intelligence operative, their wives and mistresses, and so on. Or, to take the contrary view, it is emotionally unsatisfying to read endless stuff about John Foster Dulles and Suez when what you want is the paratrooper and the lady in intimate clutch...