Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Cavalry (which includes the Army's only mechanized brigade) was still a horseman (Major General John K. Kerr), who gets the heaves when he has to think about gasoline engines. General Wesson's offhand remark told more than he knew about the attitudes which underlie, enmesh, explain the Army and Navy...
...thereafter he was busy filling notebooks with what certain self-styled "instructors," writing or speaking through his wife's mediumship, had to tell him. When he finally pieced his notes together into A Vision,* Yeats felt satisfied that he had got hold of something that, grasped fully, would "explain the world...
...explain the world had always been the ruling aspiration implicit in Yeats's writing, even in that dreamlike fairy-poetry, full of haunting music, names and symbols, which brought him popular fame. Granting the fact that many people found such poetry haunting, it remained a question why the human mind was so mysteriously hauntable. Yeats had looked for an answer, not in psychoanalysis, but in psychological religions - Rosicrucianism, Cabalism, Swedenborg, Boehme, Blake- and in the memorabilia of men of literary and artistic genius, from Homer to Ezra Pound. Through this darkling maze Yeats resolutely followed his nose...
...dreams: Earhart and Noonan are alive on a densely thicketed four-acre island; her hair "has grown long and waves in the breeze"; she cooks over a clay pot supported by part of her plane's framework, invariably asks Mrs. Morgan "to come closer and I'll explain everything." At that point, the dreams stop. Said Seer Morgan: "I was never particularly interested in Amelia Earhart...
...west of Newark, N. J. But its editors have the courage to take life hard, and sometimes even acknowledge that their convictions are not immutable. "There are more and more things in the world," says Editor Macdonald now, with disarming moderation, "that Marxism does not explain...