Word: explicit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view of your explicit mention of my name in reporting the recent Evanston meeting of the Methodist Federation for Social Action [TIME, Sept. 17], kindly permit me [to say that] on my motion the Federation unanimously adopted a statement . . . specifying five irreconcilable differences between "Christianity and the atheistic Marxian Communism of our day." . . . [Such an action] leaves no basis for the suggestion implicit in your report that the real aim of the Federation is to "promote Karl Marx." The Federation's only objective is to promote Jesus Christ. ALBERT E. BARNETT Emory University...
...second article of the self-imposed code that seriously limits the teacher's training of citizens is his reluctance to be explicit on questions of value. Social "science" no longer embraces knowledge of the good...
...second article of the self-imposed code that seriously limits the teacher's training of citizens is his reluctance to be explicit on questions of value. Social "science" no longer embraces knowledge of the good...
...Many a professional soldier has lost his Prussianized kinks after working in the Ruhr mines, many a previous failure has proved himself in the tough scramble of postwar life. Healthy distrust of outworn German codes is surging. Fanaticism for the state is finished. On this point, the Germans are explicit: "Wir sind nicht noch einmal die Dummen" (We're not going to be played for suckers again...
...Limited by their self-imposed code...'on the one hand' and 'on the other hand'...teachers hesitate to teach their students how to choose among opinions, and hesitate themselves to choose." They are reluctant "to be explicit on questions of value. Social 'science' no longer embraces knowledge of the good. Values are left to personal 'attitudes,' and to tamper with these is to expose the teacher to the charge of...'indoctrination...