Word: explicitly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governments had long made plain they intended to do. But the British pledge of actual participation in the European Army's working was designed to reassure the many Frenchmen who fear that otherwise, the efficient Germans will use it to dominate the French. And the U.S. promise was explicit enough to combat the fear of U.S. withdrawal, which has been strong in France ever since Defense Secretary Charles Wilson's too-casual talk about pulling U.S. ground forces away from the Continent (TIME...
Hitchcock's success lies in his ability to subtly interweave two worlds. In The 39 Steps the mysterious and ominous world of spies is left half explicit, and is always connected with and expressed through the real world of buses, telephones and ordinary people. The movie creates an everyday reality the audience knows. It then allows something foreign, unusual, horrible to enter that reality, but the horrible is never tangible, never fully explained. The audience is allowed an impression of something alien and frightening, and that something is never clearly defined...
...such as the Conservative League would be repulsed by every aspect of "scouting' and the intellectual regimentation for which it stands. If the new organization is being set up to stimulate interest and discussion from the conservative point of view, as its leaders say, it should make this perfectly explicit in its future actions...
...seemed more bent on winning friends than influencing people. The Finns, on the other hand, were inclined to be a little grim. Finnish Coach Antera Lauri, who had taken a team to Russia the year before, scoffed at reports that the Russians were unbeatable. One Finnish skier was more explicit: "We're going to do to them what they did to us in the winter...
...with the genius of the theater. There is a little the air of a case history, yet without quite enough documentation, let alone drama. The play is accurate and revealing, but only in the way a blueprint is. Gide's novel, though not very creative, is much less explicit and more complex; in the play every character-corrupt Biskran houseboy, self-accepting homosexual shepherd-articulates a philosophy, is "placed" in the moral landscape. Everything is formulated rather than expressed...