Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...becomes the whole world. I disparaged this tendency, and now cannot myself avoid it. Hammersmith, four miles away, is "abroad." I can imagine standing there, turning round and round slowly, looking up at the buildings in a Southerner's wonder at the Western world. I'm from Balham, I explain, as I ask a passer-by the way. London (Balham) England
...caught the next bus back to Kingston, soaking in the loud reggae and the clash of a sick but mobile transmission. At home, I dialled the phone number. A woman's voice answered. I tried to explain: "Dennis is in jail in Ochi." There was a lengthy silence. "Again?" she said resignedly. She hung up. I stood there, clutching the phone. Finally I dialled the airline...
...inaccuracies are too intricate to explain properly in this article, but the main one is that Holiday's personal shortcomings were primarily responsible for her tragic decline and eventual death...
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...
...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 in this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of condition 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...