Word: explicitness
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...central argument of the report, entitled a "Montgomery County Case Study," is that the policies of a school district undergoing integration on its own--that is, without order from court decisions or explicit laws--may have limited effects on demographic change...
...bargaining chip, the only aspect of North Korean society that makes it interesting to the world, and thus one to be sold at the highest possible price in recognition and aid. They argue that the U.S. should make the benefits of a deal for North Korea more explicit...
...seven female graduate students in the archaeology wing of the Anthropology Department go public with sexual harassment charges against Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology Nikolaas J. Van der Merwe, claiming he made sexually explicit jokes. Van der Merwer denies the charges...
...dying of AIDS too. That remark and a couple of faintly homoerotic images in some poems at the end of the volume are the closest he comes to addressing his sexuality. Price is adamant on the importance of reticence: "There are writers who have a need for the explicit and confrontational. When I read John Updike describing sex, it just makes me uncomfortable. I would think that anyone who has seriously read my work could come up with a sense of my interests. But I resent the demand of our times that one is compelled to provide the Polaroids...
...printing themselves religiously and announcing readings in their own honor, Canner and his cohorts are miffed to find 99% of students as indifferent to their "genius" as ever. And, like the insecure kid whose fishing for compliments goes unanswered, Canner has moved on to the more forceful strategy of explicit boastfulness. If the rest of Harvard won't cry hosannas to his Muse, he'll just have to do it himself...