Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...first developed a love of football in my college days at the University of Connecticut through one of my English professors. We'd watch football games Sunday afternoons at his house and he'd explain to me the intricacies of the game...
...urge to explain, explicate, examine, describe, capture, evoke, demythify, demystify, dismantle and put together again a university has obsessed others, with unspectacular results. Recognizing this vacuum, a handful of students has taken it upon itself to present the machinery inside the Harvard robot. Humorously. Entertainingly. Unfrivolously...
...professors invent--it creates a company. The University chooses the corporate line, administrators say, because it makes things more efficient. "I am about as qualified to manage real estate as I would be to manage the Food Services," Joe B. Wyatt, vice president for administration, said when asked to explain where the idea for a real estate company came from. "I don't have the faintest idea of what to do in a kitchen...
...climactic Sunday session, the diehards tried to attach some new conditions. One would have required the U.S. to grant Iranian parliamentarians free television air time to explain their grievances to the American people. But the deputies beat back this and other attempts to stave off, or at least further complicate, the negotiations. Then came the Majlis vote approving the basis for the hostage release...
...dual goal," Nuri says. "First to compose a song in this medium that would be picked up by youth, and secondly to explain politics in a way that had never been done before." The record has received the endorsements of the NAACP, and the Congressional Black Caucus, as well as those of the Democratic National Convention and the Joint Center for Political Studies...