Word: explicitly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about everyone's Christmas shopping list, bringing sudden rewards to the hitherto unrecognized authors that it honors. Though Marcel Proust and Andre Malraux were among past winners, the jury-whose average age is 74-always picks a book that has enough pizazz for the mass reader. With its explicit sexual passages, Oublier Palerme could sell as many as 400,000 copies in France this year, will doubtless be quickly translated into English and other languages...
...showdown, Camp comfortably retained his position with 564 votes v. 502 for Diefenbaker's man. Next day, the delegates were even more explicit about how they felt about Diefenbaker. By a 2-to-l margin, they endorsed Camp's proposal for a conference some time before 1968 to reconsider the party's leadership. The timing for the conference was meant to avoid an embarrassing power struggle during Canada's centennial celebrations next year. Diefenbaker was so outraged by the vote that he refused to make his scheduled speech at the conference's closing dinner...
...untitled poem by Merrill Kaitz makes quite explicit use of Stevens, though it's not clear whether as a model or as an object of satire. The poem begins...
...Surgeon General asks that the explicit consent of the subject be given in all human experiments. He perhaps does not realize that this would invalidate a number of psychological tests. If an experimenter asks a subject for permission to deceive his sense of perception, the subject will go into the experiment looking for the trick. This obviously distorts his normal reactions and makes his observations worthless. Explicit consent is essential only for potentially dangerous experiments...
...observed, "I like a man who takes his time." Later, the code's prohibition against "lustful embraces" did not stop Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr from wrestling all over a Hawaii beach in From Here to Eternity. And scarcely anybody paid any attention to the taboo against "explicit treatment of adultery...