Word: explicitness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amused by American women, especially "the middleaged, fat [ones] eating in cafeterias always a piece of bread, always smiling." Explains he in Steinbergian English: "The adventures for these women who are accustomed to quiet lives and banalities are so funny when things happen to them." Steinberg is somewhat more explicit about...
...chief interest, with the movie as with the book and play, lies in Steinbeck's central thesis: that Nazis are vulnerable to hatred and contempt. The more the picture attempts to make this theme explicit, the more it underlines the fact that Steinbeck's premise is questionable psychology. Conquerors do not expect to be loved, and seldom go to pieces because the conquered fail to embrace them. The Moon is Down may seem to many audiences an extraordinarily naive view of the facts of Nazi life...
...Navy College Training Program will provide the men with pay, subsistence and uniforms, and they will be under Navy discipline. Giving explicit tables, the letter discusses the special requirements for Chaplains. Medical and Dental men, and Engineers, V-1, V-7 students will be initially assigned to training on the basis of their present or indicated major field of concentration and the needs of the service...
...intelligence work for the world's Chuck Crawfords; if he had shown behind his sharply observed surfaces more of the intricate counterpoint of political machinery in action; if he had made the danger implicit in Chuck's kind-and Tyler's-more edged and more explicit; if he had not skidded into regrettable Sandburg-&-ketchup prose poetry this could have been a much better book. Even as it stands, it is a clear, vivid warning and bracer to that man-in-the-street who makes or breaks democracies, seldom reads books, and is this book...
Indian intellectuals who tuned in to the BBC short-wave radio blinked with surprise. Over the air they were receiving explicit instructions on how to conduct a campaign of passive resistance. After four months of Mohandas Gandhi's nonviolent nonresistance, it seemed to the listeners that the bumbling BBC was carrying coals to Newcastle again. But the BBC was trying to instruct Italians, not Indians, in slowdown technique. The British were carrying coals from India to Italy...