Word: explicitly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book, without spelling anything out, Green gets a great deal said, and more understood, about what people are really like. The querulousness of old age, the cunning and hardness underneath girlish innocence, the selfishness that sparks a lot of human behavior, good and bad, are all explored without an explicit statement about any of them. Even the pall of living under an unimaginative socialist regime is understood without being underscored...
...fellow worker was more explicit: "Do you really think we are going to get land? That it will be enough? That they will give us help so we can till it? So we don't have to sell out to the barons in order to live and pay our debts when harvests fail? When we occupied land with the Communist Party, we felt we were winning it for ourselves. But some of us got into debt and had to hand it back if we wanted the barons' money, and no one else has any to loan...
...zoologists' intention is, of course, beyond reproach. To trace man's ancestry to the ape and the chimpanzee is a noble purpose. And this purpose they have made explicit wherever possible; they have placed a mother monkey, for instance, with her stuffed infant over her knee...
Oenslager's drawings have a poster-like quality that is ideal for explicit, colorful comedy designs. It is sometimes inadequate in treating big dramas which rely heavily on mood and atmosphere. In designing for such dramas Jones excels. He uses a delicate pen-and-ink and wash technique to record mood and atmosphere, rather than providing scale drawings for the scene painter. Many of Jones' drawings have no more color than a subtly graded grey wash and one or two small areas of blood red. His designs for the Lionel Barrymore "Macbeth" of 1921 and the John Barrymore "Hamlet...
...heart was with the U.N., which he regards as the world's only hope for peace; 2) as the father of three children, he could not afford to give up his U.N. post for the lower-salaried State Department job. But to a reporter he gave a more explicit explanation: "It is well known that there is Jim Crow in Washington. It is equally well known that no Negro finds Jim Crow congenial. I am a Negro...