Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even do four or five lectures together. We may be able to explain some problems better with dialogue," said Lloyd...
...read off a famed Canadian freelance writer, Bruce Hutchison, for using such overcharged expressions as "ominous," "hostile," and "disconcertingly painful" in a Harper's Magazine article in which he also referred to U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles as "an unmitigated disaster." Said the Telegram: "To explain to an American that Mr. Hutchison acts as an adviser to [Opposition Leader Lester] Pearson, has little acquaintance with leading figures in the new government at Ottawa, and has long exhibited a deep hatred of Mr. Dulles, hardly offsets the mischief in the article...
...Pepsi. Professional Corporation Baiter John Gilbert (no kin to the silent screen idol) asked if the apartment was finally finished. Steele replied that it was; he had revealed the loan because Securities and Exchange Commission rules state that company proxy statements must list and explain all financial transactions with officers or big stockholders...
Nobody can explain just how the operas of Giuseppe Verdi became an "electrical communication with the spirit of the time." The idea "just grew"-to the point where Italian patriots detected in the most innocent little note or inflection of a Verdi aria a cry for liberty and revolt. When Cavour received one night the telegram that began Italy's second War of Independence, he said not a word to his aides. He merely flung the window open and bellowed a phrase of Verdi's // Trovatore to his sleeping countrymen...
Eliot finds that an increasing number of people are trying to explain his own poems to him. "I prefer the Jung school of criticism to the Freud school," he remarked, "because my poems fare better...