Word: explicit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...century, Author Henry Miller admits readers into his own first meeting with Conrad Moricand. Conrad must be conceded to be one of the least lovely characters of modern times. He was an astrologer, drug addict, scholar, louse, lamprey or -to reduce it all to Miller's own explicit prose-a "phoney bastard...
...adventure and the atmosphere. The new color style, a blend of black and white with technicolor--is an ideal compromise between the prosaic and the lush. The musical score is appropriate. And Huston controls the dramatic pace effectively, starting slowly in the New Bedford scenes, mixing in increasingly explicit predictions of doom, and constantly quickening the tempo until at the end, in the storm scene and the final fight with Moby Dick, the action grips not just the Pequod's crew but the audience as well...
...hermitage to Hermitage (of a good year, of course), Faulkner has been reluctant to talk about the one subject he is most qualified to discuss-the art of writing. But for the new issue of the English-language quarterly, the Paris Review, Novelist Faulkner relented sufficiently to deliver some explicit comments on his trade...
...Protestant seminaries each spring the fledgling ministers come, eager for service and responsibility as God's men in the world. What happens then? An explicit answer came last week from Sociologist Samuel W. Blizzard Jr. of Pennsylvania State University, who gave the Greater Pittsburgh Ministerial Union a preliminary report on a 2½-year, $40,-000 survey, financed from the Russell Sage Foundation. Subject of the survey: the requirements of the modern ministry...
Beyond these explicit points, the statement clearly implied another: the Eisenhower Administration has made up its mind not to sell substantial amounts of arms to Israel, because it does not believe that a step-up in Israeli armed might is a solution of the problem of keeping peace in the Middle East-any more than the Communist arms for Egypt solved it. The real solution-if there is one-lies in the U.N. appeal, and beyond that, in Ike's promise that no aggressor will go unpunished and no victim of aggression unaided...