Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Then he sat down to explain why he was abandoning all claim to the most powerful governorship in the U.S. at an age (48) when most politicos are just hitting their stride. First, his blood pressure was low from fatigue, and the bursitis in his right shoulder had reduced his usual eight-hour nightly sleep to two or three. Then there was money: after taxes on his $25,000 governor's salary, he had hardly enough to support the family and put his two sons (ages: 14 and 17) through college. He had been offered the presidency...
...would rather welcome them. One would point out handsome new buildings to them, and explain the workings of the cyclotron and the calculator to their families. One would tell them why some of the Yard's old trees have been felled, and why the ginger bread is missing from the Memorial Hall tower. One would be mindful the whole while that changes are relative; when weighed against all that Harvard means to its students and alumni, they hardly jiggle the scale...
...have you been at any time in the past, a member of or in anywise affiliated either with the Communist Party or with any organization or association controlled to your knowledge by Communists? If so, please explain fully...
Written and produced by Novelist Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch, The Capture is told in a series of flashbacks that explain too much about Lew Ayres and not enough about the rest of the cast. Despite some good photography, a stark Mexican background, and a fine feeling for place and incident, the indecisive plot suffers from the same fuzziness that clutters up the dialogue...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer it this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived...