Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only three. Norwegians were quick to point out that "all" flags are flown on the anniversaries of such great Norwegian authors as Ibsen and Bjornson. Said the newspaper Dagbladet: "Hamsun will go down in history as one of the greatest authors. But . . . any attempt to explain away his conduct during the war would be wrong and in bad taste...
...cloud layers over the earth. An electronic counter digests the mirror's impressions and turns them into radio signals, which eventually become crude photographs of the earth's weather patterns. Two magnetometers watch the earth's magnetic field, may help map the field and explain its curious storms and their effect on earth communications...
...expressionists have a new forum in the shape of a magazine with a softly assertive title: It Is Editor and Publisher: Philip G. Pavia, a Greenwich Village sculptor blessed with a private income, who loads his $2 magazine with full-page reproductions, offers ample space to the artists to explain, defend and expand on their own efforts. After three issues and yards of prose. It Is seems to have proved that the painters are at least as confused about their work as the public is. Sample quotes...
...Much of the fantastic effect of Macbeth is due to the uncanny atmosphere of fear the Bard created--and this is a play about fear much more than about the "vaulting ambition" that our schoolteachers emphasize, even though Macbeth and his wife both attempt to explain their drive by invoking the inadequate word "ambition...
Criticizing the use of history to explain the compositions of great artists of the past, he said that even so great an artist as Mozart becomes artificial to present-day music lovers if he is seen only through history...