Word: explains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first issues will carry no advertising. Explain the editors: "When twelve issues of The Reporter have been published, we will know who reads our magazine, and what they think of it . . ." But until The Reporter knew the audience it was aiming at, it was not likely to make...
...admitted to a gnawing distrust of the tastes of audiences in general. An audience, he wrote, is "a mass without a will of its own . . . which reacts automatically to any stimulus. Its first reaction is frequently right, but very often it is thoroughly wrong. How could we otherwise explain that operas like Carmen, A'ida and La Boheme, today among the most durable successes, flopped* completely when performed for the first time...
...could be that Historian Max Beloff of Oxford did not explain what could be done about the immaturity of higher education in the U.S. [TIME, March 28] . . . because he wasn't asked. If he were asked, he need merely to point with pride to the method and record of Oxford...
...years he was known as "Bonnie Prince Charley"-a debonair and engaging scholar, with a flair for energetic lecturing (he virtually acted out the battle scenes). In his first years on the Yale faculty, his Diplomatic Background of the War (1916) did more than any other book to explain to literate Americans what the European war then raging was all about. It so impressed Woodrow Wilson that the President invited him to Paris in 1919 as a member of the U.S. peace delegation. After that, Seymour settled on the campus-first as professor, then as provost, finally as president...
Wall Street & Walkouts. Dry Messiah is Richmond Newspaper Editor Virginius Dabney's careful and stolid look at a puritan's progress from circuit-riding man-of-God to arrogant director of a nation's morals. It does little to explain the man or the moral climate in which he was bred, but it is a useful and embarrassing reminder that for over a decade Cannon's narrow vision and flinty prohibitionist zeal were among the most persuasive forces in U.S. politics...