Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...write a whole play about them? That they are trifling things; that they have little or nothing to do with the quality of government; that they transcend party and ideology; that they sell newspapers. But Dirty Linen does not explore the psychology of public prurience, does not try to explain why people buy newspapers when they contain prying stories about politicians' private lives. In the play's epiphanic moment, a buxom secretary named Maddie Gotobed--the "Titian-haired, green-eyed" enchantress at the root of this particular scandal--instructs the committee of M.P.s investigating the charges that "the people" care...
...trying to explain why women do not receive tenure even though they appear on final lists, the report states, "Some observers feel that male dominated departments have in the past been reluctant to award the ultimate prize of scholarship--tenure--to women; while they were permitted to serve in junior positions there were always reasons why full colleagueship seemed inappropriate. It is difficult to generalize about topics which have such personal overtones, but to the extent that sex-stereotyping existed in the past, the slow but real growth in the number of tenured women suggest that...
Then, Illsley hastened to explain, "It's had its day, that sort of thing. Very boring. This is a film, you know, with a plot. We considered videotape but the people using film use it with a bit more sensitivity...
...simply deciding whether to cheat on their husbands with one man or two. But now there is a far brighter light on the subject. An extraordinary and insightful text, Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic does precisely what I and my friends were unable to do: explain why these Victorian works remain as potent, relevant and rebellious today as they did when written more than a century...
...indicate the significance of "electron correlation," or the interaction between the motions of electrons; and his 1932 book, The Theory of Electric and Magnetic Susceptibilities, remains a classic in the field. His research, for which he was a co-recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physics, helped explain how a foreign atom invades the symmetrical structure of a crystal, and was basic to the development of modern computer memory systems...