Word: explicit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Cause finds Poet Mac Leish even farther from the Finland Station. In view of his relations with the White House, it is almost an official statement of the case for democracy. Quibblers may experience an uneasy wish that MacLeish had been a little more explicit as to what the democracy of the future will look like. But most Americans will agree that the case for the democracy of the present has seldom been better presented...
...they think sense should be made. So Gertrude Stein, who uses prose to build a series of abstractions, either infuriates most readers or elicits defensive jeers. But readers who are willing to read words as they are willing to listen to notes in music-as things without an explicit message-can get from her work a rare pleasure. The three stories in her earliest (1909) book, Three Lives, being anchored to sense, are good ones to start on. Her latest book, Ida, much more abstract, is a good one to go on with...
Last Monday the Supreme Court handed down one of its rare reversals of a long-spreading opinion, and caught up further on the job of writing social conscience into the Constitution. In an explicit denial of both the language and spirit of the 1916 case of Hammer vs. Dagenhart, (Justice Holmes dissenting), the high court upheld the child labor restrictions of the Wage and Hours Act of 1938. The decision was long overdue and almost universally welcomed. But it should be received with an enthusiasm well-tempered by a realization that the evil of child labor is only indirectly...
...with the aluminum supply but with little Northrop's inability to plan its orders, stock up in advance. Commissioner Stettinius harshly denounced Northrop for reporting "shortages which do not exist," declared that the company had already resumed a full working schedule. Mr. Stettinius was less explicit when he said: "[There are] no serious shortages in aluminum . . . now required for national defense. Certain temporary delays in delivery will doubtless occur. ..." That ALCOA could supply defense demands without curtailing its ordinary commercial business, Mr. Stettinius noticeably failed to promise. Guns already had priority over butter knives...
...country when the two major political parties were holding their national conventions last June and July. The representatives of the greater part of the American People in attendance at the conventions decided against resort to war at that time as an instrument of national policy. The Republican platform declared explicitly and unequivocally that "the Republican party is firmly opposed to involving this Nation in foreign war." The Democratic platform was equally explicit and unequivecal. "We will not participate in foreign wars," it declared, "and we will not send our army, naval or air forces to fight in foreign lands outside...