Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This article is designed to explain how to achieve the third answer to this perplexing problem by the use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation, and the overpowering assumption. Since examination period is almost over, we feel sure that it will be of little use to most readers...
Next morning, Sidney was summoned before the town Health Committee and summarily fired from his job for "mimicking the Queen" and bringing disgrace on Bebington. He apologized and tried to explain. It was useless...
Riot & Rebellion. Since famine may strike a particular social class in the midst of plenty, why is it that starving people do not rebel and simply seize food? Dr. Keys and his team of researcher-writers explain in reply: "Riot and rebellion are engendered by minor hunger and deprivation, but real starvation makes for relative tractability. Though moral and social standards may be lost, lethargy and weakness are powerful deterrents against strong action...
Perhaps Together. Veteran Violinist Alexander Schneider, who arranged the festival (and the recording of it by Columbia), could not explain exactly how Casals had done it-"A million words are of no use." Young Pianist Eugene Istomin was more articulate. His admiration did not stem from "the musical facts I may learn from Casals. It is the reinforcement of an attitude that is so inspiring. He stands for everything that is noble and sublime in music, and you feel unafraid to express it yourself after you have met this...
Remember Santa Fe. When FBI agents called on him and asked him to explain his activities, he talked willingly. Did he know Fuchs? No. Had he served as a Communist agent? No, certainly not. The questioning went on insistently for eight days. Gold never lost his composure. But discrepancies developed in his story. He had denied ever being west of the Mississippi. But one day, in casual conversation with agents about his favorite American cities, he told how much he liked Santa Fe, N.Mex...