Word: explicitness
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...donated when you die, you should say so in a living will or fill out a Uniform Donor Card (available from the American Medical Association). Make sure your closest relatives know about it. And if you don't want to donate an organ, you should make your wishes equally explicit...
...find an explicit Christmas season far preferable to the type of ecumenical holiday season described in the Crimson’s editorial today and often practiced at Harvard...
...25—there should also be protests against any Halloween parties (which even the name will tell you has been associated by the church with the subsequent All Saints’ Day). Similarly, the Star of David or the menorah seen in many houses has much more explicit religious overtones (the trees do not have crosses, at least), yet there do not seem to be protests—perhaps it is worse to be anti-Semitic...
...three; his fatherly life with Jutta, his identity as an artist and eventually a father with Veronika, and his role as an authority figure with Helga, who treats him with a child-like dependency. Thomas’ life becomes highly complex, and he keeps up the charade for no explicit reason, except that he is simply too weak to knock off a couple corners of his triangle. This is most certainly the crux of the story’s charm. Schlink takes incredible joy in keeping Thomas’ motivations unclear. Though this makes “Sugar Peas?...
...don’t pigeonhole her as the intellectual. At Quincy House lunches, she can gossip and kvetch with the best of them—a Jewish girl after our own hearts (though FM may have to break her into more explicit convos on the pros and cons of birth control). Simply put, Rachel is a beautiful person. Her stories on irony and hot law school activists dig deep. Her big hugs and undying commitment to this magazine go unparalleled. She will rule the comp and perhaps teach our staff a bit about true reporting, Newsweek style. FM is confident...