Word: explicitness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certainly some conductors (and some famous ones) make the strings weep when the composer only intended them to sigh. But if all that is needed is to follow the composer's explicit directions, what's all the fuss about conducting? To the average listener, it might seem that a mechanical metronome would serve as well as a human one. There are other conscientious conductors, just as selflessly anxious as Toscanini to express the composer's intent. Why does Toscanini tower over them...
...Horizon. ECA's sailing orders were not explicit. The administrator was ordered to bring back strategic materials in partial recompense for U.S. deliveries. He was to see that none of the $5.3 billion, in the shape of potential war materials, filtered through the Iron Curtain, and that the 16 nations tidied up their economies in a way that suited the U.S. But he was given the widest latitude, chiefly because no one knew exactly how to plot ECA's course beyond the visible horizon...
...back on its feet. This means, with out any doubt, that the U.S. lend us large and prolonged help in the economic field [but, more than that], it is clear that their support should be spread at the same time to the field of defense in as precise and explicit a manner as the Marshall Plan does on credit and imports...
...other hand there have been the complementary disasters in the subjective and objective worlds, the failure of personal initiative, lacking a principle of integration and intimidated by the knowledge that thought is conditioned by hunger and desire. . . . This is the moment of potential anarchy when the community lacks any explicit principle of order which can be effective under the conditions of the time. This is the night of violent and bestial release, the opportunity of the inhibited perversions which can now ally themselves with technical power. The dominance of the dissociated idealisms is over, and the two remaining active principles...
...could express surprise over the convention-end revelation that the Truman alternative alone could come near to satisfying ADA. What did crop into the open without warning was the overwhelming general unrest about the Administration drift toward a conservative orientation. Two viewpoints concerning strategy clashed: one holding that explicit platform-wise recognition of Truman's shortness on liberalism would gather votes for Wallace, another insisting that a whitewash inevitably spelled further Presidential slaps to the face of the Left. The issue was fought out in sessions of the political policy drafting committee. Careerist Democrats Paul Porter (ex-OPA chief...