Word: explainers
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...probably impossible for Western standards of dignity and revenge to explain why, in Thairu's words, "most of the people that prefects punished are now their very good friends...
...reject the notion that there is a set of bureaucratic questions Faculty shouldn't have to answer, " Lewis says. "I think that almost every question is an opportunity to explain something...
...also connect both of them to an argument by a British anthropologist that 150 is the maximum number of people whom anyone can really know intimately enough to bond with. Bunches no bigger than that are the best incubators for "contagious messages," Gladwell writes, leaping from there to explain how tight-knit book-discussion clubs talked up the novel Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood until it hit the best-seller list...
Gladwell says his book is intended partly as antidote to the current and somewhat fatalistic intellectual climate, in which immutable genes are supposed to explain the present and set the future in concrete. "Sometimes we talk as if there were no such thing as culture," he says. "Culture has a real effect on how we act and what we believe." So, there's the 1984 study that found that ABC News anchor Peter Jennings was more likely to smile on camera when talking about Ronald Reagan than Walter Mondale, and that in the same year the people who watched...
...writer who covers sports, I spend a good amount of time convincing women that athletic contests are a legitimate form of entertainment. To do this, I usually use words like "Aristotelian catharsis," but recently someone asked me to explain what that meant, which didn't go so well, so I don't say that anymore. But I know it doesn't mean "dumb guy who likes to drool over half-naked women with sand strategically affixed to them." I explained my opinions to Rebecca Romijn-Stamos when I interviewed her last year, and she responded by telling me that...