Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...only strengthened the Begin government's intransigence. It runs the risk, even in its toned-down version, of arousing unrealistic expectations in the P.L.O. of what Israel can be expected to concede and encourages the Arabs to play off the Americans against the Europeans. It is difficult to explain this initiative in any terms other than Europe's trying to assert an illusory independence and seeking good karma with the oil suppliers...
...What do the words futbol, stadion and patriot have in common?" he asks. Hands shoot up across the classroom, but the pupils are silent, and there is no squirming to catch the teacher's attention. Alexei Grigoryevich points to a girl in the third row, who rises to explain that all these words are of foreign origin. The teacher draws back a curtain covering part of the blackboard, disclosing a chart of verbs. Asked to explain where the accent falls in various verb forms, students respond by reciting grammatical rules. Invariably, they answer in complete sentences. Each pupil...
...Another film maker got into trouble when he included a song called Bring Me a Piece of the Moon-during the time that Americans had landed there and the Russians had not. Was he belittling the Soviet space effort? Edward Topol, an émigré screenwriter, once tried to explain a picture about juvenile delinquency to a Soviet official, who said that in his travels round the Soviet Union he had never seen any youthful criminals, so how could they exist? Re-edited and reshot, a new version was permitted to go forth by KGB Boss Yuri Andropov...
...when their voices have been ignored by older men intent on personal political gain and committed to a reactionary and senseless foreign policy, young people must continue the fight. Those who refuse to register should publicly explain their reasons, to local newspapers, to their friends, parents and Congressmen, and to local registration boards...
...urge a fee of not 10? but 50? or more (most European nations now charge nearly $2 per gal. in taxes). Even so, claims the Administration, the 10? charge would save 100,000 bbl. a day. Congress's refusal to impose any tax will therefore be hard to explain when Carter goes to Venice later this month to coordinate allied energy policies...